Baby and Cub

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Baby noun - A recently born person.

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Cub is a synonym for baby in infant topic. In some cases you can use "Cub" instead a noun "Baby", when it comes to topics like newborn.

Nearby Words: babe, babyish, babyhood, babying

Cub noun - A young person who is between infancy and adulthood.

Usage example: assigned to teach a bunch of young cubs how to play baseball

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Baby is a synonym for cub in young topic. You can use "Baby" instead a noun "Cub", if it concerns topics such as infant, newborn.

human	human baby	human cub
adorable	adorable baby	adorable cub
female	female baby	female cub
normal	normal baby	normal cub
Other adjectives: dead, single, poor, small, healthy, actual, male, little, black, sick, innocent, young, cute, white, new, missing, titular, last, said, newborn, aforementioned, orphaned.

Similar terms include "cub" for young bears, "baby dyke" for lesbians, and "baby queer" as a more general term.

Source: The Twink
In the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "Bitter Work", Sokka finds a baby saber-toothed moose-lion cub, and inevitably its mama is near, and has to be fought off by Aang.

Source: Cub Cues Protective Parent
Cub Cues Protective Parent: When Manu, the baby baboon gets in danger (such as being attacked by a leopard cub in "The Lost Cub"), his family will surely come for his aid.

Source: Western Animation / The Legend of Tarzan

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