Definition of adult

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Adult (a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age..

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Cirripedia :: Cirripedia (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa..
Impurity :: Impurity (n.) The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
Fornication :: Fornication (n.) Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.
Adulterer :: Adulterer (n.) A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
Beef :: Beef (n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food..
Embryology :: Embryology (n.) The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.
Mandrill :: Mandrill (n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red..
Pupa :: Pupa (n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage..
Virile :: Virile (a.) Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs..
Adulter :: Adulter (v. i.) To commit adultery; to pollute.
Phainopepla :: Phainopepla (n.) A small crested passerine bird (Phainopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher..
Adulteress :: Adulteress (n.) A woman who violates her religious engagements.
Bittern :: Bittern (a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer..
Net :: Net (a.) Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc..
Hemimetabolic :: Hemimetabolic (a.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches..
Adulteries :: Adulteries (pl. ) of Adulter.
Unadulterated :: Unadulterated (a.) Not adulterated; pure.
Imago :: Imago (n.) The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm..
Tympanohyal :: Tympanohyal (n.) The proximal segment in the hyoidean arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in adult man..
Urochord :: Urochord (n.) The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates.
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