primord
Primord is a term used in various scholarly contexts as an informal or shorthand reference to an earliest or primal form, particularly the primordium in developmental biology or to a primordial state in evolutionary terms. The word derives from the Latin primordium, meaning “first form” or “beginning,” and is built from prim- “first” and ord- “beginning.”
In biology, primord is commonly encountered as an informal shorthand for primordium, the early group of cells
In other contexts, primord can appear in literature or media as a stylized term to denote something
See also: primordium, primordial, leaf primordium, flower primordium.