The primitive pit is a depression in the center of the primitive node, connecting to the notochord. It consists of part of the primitive streak.
Famous quotes containing the words primitive and/or pit:
“That primitive head
So ambitiously vast,
Yet so rude in its art,
Is as easily read
For the woes of the past
As a clinical chart.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.”
—Mae West (1892–1980)