proto-literate
adjective
Of or relating to the early stages of literacy in a culture or society; characterized by the use of primitive or unsophisticated forms of writing.
Origin
1940s.
- phenocryst
- phenogam
- phenogamous
- phenogenetics
- phenogram
- phenol
- phenolase
- phenolate
- phenolcarboxylic
- phenol carboxylic
- phenol-formaldehyde
- phenolic
- phenolisation
- phenolise
- phenolised
- phenolization
- phenolize
- phenolized
- phenologic
- phenological
- phenologist
- phenology
- phenoloid
- phenoloxidase
- phenolphthalein