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say it: ROO-di-muhnt
rudiment is a noun meaning "the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life". It is pronounced /ˈɹudɪmənt/ — ROO-di-muhnt. It carries one recorded sense.
the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life
“Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rudiment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.