1) Beginning 2) Beginning to develop 3) Beginning to exist or appear 4) Developing 5) Early 6) Germinal 7) Imperfectly formed 8) Inchoate 9) Only partly in existence Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/incipient
In·cip'i·ent adjective [ Latin incipiens , present participle of incipere to begin. See Inception .] Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. -- In*cip'i*ent*ly , Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/I/32
inchoateadjective only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; `incipient civil disorder`; `an incipient tumor`; `a vague inchoate idea` Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974