Idyll vs Pristine - What's the difference?
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Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of .
An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
(music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. .
Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something
Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
* 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/publications/pubs/freshwater-sawfish-northern-river-shark.pdf]
As a noun idyll
is any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls.As an adjective pristine is
unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.idyll
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* idylNoun
(en noun)See also
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* ----pristine
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) pristin.Adjective
(en adjective)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).