4
germinating(verb, beginning, promising, rising, mounting)
4
hopeful(adjective, advance, view, success, perhaps)
4
infant(adjective, beginning, lush, luxuriant, young)
4
initial(adjective, new, beginning, fresh, first)
4
juvenile(adjective, lush, luxuriant, young, childlike)
4
primeval(adjective, beginning)
4
promising(adjective, advance, view, success, likely)
4
undeveloped
4
unfledged(lush, luxuriant, youth, blooming, verdant)
4
unripe(lush, luxuriant, verdant)
4
young(adjective, first, lush, primary, luxuriant)
3
aboriginal(adjective, beginning)
3
creative(adjective, rational, fantastic, original, resourceful)
3
emerging(verb, adjective, beginning, promising, rising)
3
fetal(adjective, beginning)
3
formative(adjective, beginning)
3
growth(noun, expansion)
3
inaugural(adjective, beginning)
3
inchoate(adjective, initial, emerging)
3
infantile(adjective, beginning)
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