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Live :: Live (v. i.) To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity..

Animal :: Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity..

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..

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

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

Pentachenium :: Pentachenium (n.) A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity..

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

Inconcoction :: Inconcoction (n.) The state of being undigested; unripeness; immaturity.

Dehiscence :: Dehiscence (n.) A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents..

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..

Adult :: Adult (n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity..

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

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

Maturing :: Maturing (a.) Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand..

Matureness :: Matureness (n.) The state or quality of being mature; maturity.

Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring..

Adolescent :: Adolescent (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

Proterandrous :: Proterandrous (a.) Having the stamens come to maturity before the pistil; -- opposed to proterogynous.

Gordius :: Gordius (n.) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs..

Maturescent :: Maturescent (a.) Approaching maturity.

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