nascent Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective being born or beginning
    • the nascent chicks
    • a nascent insurgency

WordNet

Nas"cent adjective
Etymology
L. nascens, -entis, p.pr. nasci to be born. See Nation, and cf. Naissant.
Definitions
  1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
    Nascent passions and anxieties. Berkley.
  2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.

Webster 1913