primordial soup
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Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
primordial soup (countable and uncountable, plural primordial soups)
- (informal, evolutionary theory) The state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history, during the early development of multicellular organisms.
- (figurative) a collection of ideas or things that gets refined over time
Translations[edit]
state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history
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