basal

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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adjective especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
adjective serving as or forming a base
adjective of primary importance

From base + -al.

What is the basal element in the laughable? — Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, Henri Bergson
The compartment in which he labored was a basal compartment, and set in the massive bulkhead, against which he leaned with his bootstraps still unlaced, was an airlock opening directly on the Martian plain. — Space Station 1, Frank Belknap Long
The clank and rush of the elevated, the strident grinding of the trolleys, the polyglot whistling and tooting of the numerous small river craft, the cries of 'longshoremen, the roaring basal note of metropolitan mechanism--all were silenced. — Flamsted quarries, Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

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