unborn

1. not comparableNot yet born; yet to come; future.

   Synonyms: coming

2. not comparableNot yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.

   Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.

   2007 September 10, “Review: Jones, Coens, Penn highlight Toronto”, in CNN

3. not comparableExisting without birth or beginning.

plural unborns

1. countableA single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.

   Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.

   2009, Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”, in Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176

2. uncountableUnborn offspring collectively.

   Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.