"primordial soup" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: primordial soups [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} primordial soup (countable and uncountable, plural primordial soups)
  1. (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. Tags: countable, informal, uncountable Categories (topical): Evolutionary theory, Biology, Geology Related terms: primordial sea, primordial ocean, primordial ooze Translations (state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history): ursuppe [common-gender] (Danish), oersoep [feminine] (Dutch), alkuliemi (Finnish), soupe primordiale [feminine] (French), პირველყოფილი ბულიონი (ṗirvelq̇opili bulioni) (Georgian), Ursuppe [feminine] (German), ősleves (Hungarian), zupa pierwotna [feminine] (Polish), sopa primordial [feminine] (Portuguese), перви́чный бульо́н (pervíčnyj bulʹón) [masculine] (Russian), caldo primordial [masculine] (Spanish), sopa primordial [masculine] (Spanish), ursoppa [common-gender] (Swedish), ilkel çorba (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-primordial_soup-en-noun-aT8dHB5N Disambiguation of Biology: 100 0 Disambiguation of Geology: 87 13 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 83 17 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 84 16 Disambiguation of "state of the Earth's oceans at a very early time in the planet's history": 96 4
  2. (figurative) a collection of ideas or things that gets refined over time Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
    Sense id: en-primordial_soup-en-noun-5Kqt9drW

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