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The Collaborative International Dictionary
neonate

neonate \ne"o*nate\ (n[=e]"[-o]*n[=a]t), n. A newborn child, especially one less than one month old.

Syn: baby, babe, infant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
neonate

"recently born infant," 1905, coined from neo- + Latin natus "born," past participle of nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus).

Wiktionary
neonate

n. A newborn infant; recently born baby.

WordNet
neonate

n. a baby from birth to four weeks [syn: newborn, newborn infant, newborn baby]

Usage examples of "neonate".

Tiresome for the neonate, and more tiresome still for the auditor who is not experiencing it but only listening to interminable woes.

They saw copses of stumps weathered by more than two decades and interspersed with neonate trees, where they had taken timber on their way out.

First World War the number of carelessly spawned neonates had quintupled.

The fertilized egg divides into two identical halves that yield two perfectly identical individuals, two neonates, two mirror-image twins.

I managed to get hold of a bunch of neonates and unborns and baby things.

It was very difficult surgery, often in sick premature neonates with other congenital disorders, and a large percentage of the babies were retarded.