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Abortion :: Abortion (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion..

Maturity :: Maturity (n.) Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run..

Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism..

Agave :: Agave (n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses..

Maturative :: Maturative (a.) Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration..

Adult :: 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..

Mature :: Mature (v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans..

Adolescence :: Adolescence (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals..

State :: State (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme..

Nonage :: Nonage (n.) Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.

Maturer :: Maturer (n.) One who brings to maturity.

Juvenility :: Juvenility (n.) The manners or character of youth; immaturity.

Indehiscent :: Indehiscent (a.) Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut..

Growth :: Growth (n.) The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth..

Proterogynous :: Proterogynous (a.) Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.

Schizocarp :: Schizocarp (n.) A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.

Tickler :: Tickler (n.) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.

Greenness :: Greenness (n.) Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth..

Autumn :: Autumn (n.) The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

Immaturity :: Immaturity (n.) The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

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