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FULL-GROWN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of animals) fully developed
Example:
a grown woman
Synonyms:
adult; big; full-grown; fully grown; grown; grownup
Classified under:
Similar:
mature (having reached full natural growth or development)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Context examples:
It may be of no moment to you; you have sisters and don't care for a cousin; but I had nobody; and now three relations,—or two, if you don't choose to be counted,—are born into my world full-grown.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And in the course of the long journey with Grey Beaver he walked softly indeed amongst the full-grown dogs in the camps of the strange man-animals they encountered.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Both from his father, the wolf, and from Kiche, he had inherited stature and strength, and already he was measuring up alongside the full-grown dogs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was a full-grown mosquito, one that had lain frozen in a dry log all winter and that had now been thawed out by the sun.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Had he been full-grown, he would have run away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As in his cubhood he had been made to feel his smallness and puniness on the day he first came in from the Wild to the village of Grey Beaver, so now, in his full-grown stature and pride of strength, he was made to feel small and puny.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
