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- adjective
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- in an initial stage; not fully formed [Princeton Review]
- just begun and therefore not fully formed or developed [Barron]
- being only partly in existence or operation; especially: imperfectly formed or formulated; formless [Taisha]
- not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary [Nandigam]
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