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The Grapes of Wrath vocabulary

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1. (biology) A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops.
2. (genetics) An allele, a specific version of a gene (as used by Gregor Mendel).
3. (psychology) Temperament, the predominant personality type.

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[...] all passive but armed with appliances of activity, still, but each possessed of the anlage of movement.

John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath, p.14 (1939)

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