unborn

un- +‎ born

unborn (not comparable)

1. Not yet born; yet to come; future.
2. Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
3. Existing without birth or beginning.

unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)

1. (countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
   • 2009, Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), →ISBN, page 176:

     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.

2. (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.

   Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.

• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:unborn.