Nascent
WordNet

adjective


(1)   Being born or beginning
"The nascent chicks";"a nascent insurgency"
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Etymology


From , present participle of .

Adjective



  1. Emerging; just coming into existence
    India has a nascent space industry.
  2. Of the state of an element at the time it is generated from some compound.

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