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prenatal collapse: occurring or existing before birth; "the prenatal period"; "antenatal care"

nascent collapse: being born or beginning; "the nascent chicks";"a nascent insurgency"

basal collapse: of primary importance; serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats"

natal collapse: a port city in northeastern Brazil; a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean; "Natal was renamed KwaZulu-Natal in 1994"; relating to or accompanying birth; "natal injuries"; "natal day"; "natal influences"; of or relating to the buttocks

infantile collapse: being or befitting or characteristic of an infant; "infantile games"; of or relating to infants or infancy; "infantile paralysis"

autochthonous collapse: of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed

incipient collapse: only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"

parturient collapse: giving birth; "a parturient heifer"; of or relating to or giving birth; "parturient pangs"; "the parturient uterus"

introductory collapse: serving as an introduction or preface; serving to open or begin; "began the slide show with some introductory remarks"

aboriginal collapse: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life"; of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia; "an Aboriginal rite"

budding collapse: reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent; beginning to develop; "a budding genius"

basic collapse: (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant; a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use; of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base; serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"; pertaining to or constituting a base or basis; "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"; reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"

rudimentary collapse: being in the earliest stages of development; "rudimentary plans"

elemental collapse: relating to or being an element; "elemental sulphur"; relating to severe atmospheric conditions; "a race against hail or cold rains or some other elemental catastrophe"- J.K.Howard

abecedarian collapse: a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge; a novice learning the rudiments of some subject; alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)

initial collapse: the first letter of a word (especially a person's name); "he refused to put the initials FRS after his name"; occurring at the beginning; "took the initial step toward reconciliation"; mark with one's initials

elementary collapse: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem"; of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing"

beginning collapse: the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"; the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"; the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war"; the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"; the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"

embryonic collapse: in an early stage of development; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"; of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic stage"; "embryologic development"

formative collapse: minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function; forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience"; capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone"; susceptible to alteration by development and experience; "formative years"

inaugural collapse: serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"; occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball"

pregnant collapse: carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life

primitive collapse: a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"; a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived; a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization; used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"; of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"

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