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Definition of Full-grown
1. Adjective. (of animals) fully developed. "A grown woman"
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Similar to: Mature
Derivative terms: Adult, Adult, Grownup
Definition of Full-grown
1. Adjective. Fully developed; adult ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Full-grown
Literary usage of Full-grown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"A. e., full-grown tree Studley Park. HW Juliet. Studley P«rk. HW Jukes. (337.)
(336. ... A. c., full-grown tree - (335<O Whitton Park. H. Le Jame. 387. ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"WHEN THE full-grown POET CAME Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe,
with all its shows of day and night), saying, He is mine; ..."
3. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"In fall, when they are nearly or quite full grown, they make a hibernating cell
by plugging up the burrow both before and behind with frass, and Fig. ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"The broad part of a deer's horns, when full grown. Nailing it up among Irish
heads of deer, to shew the mightiness of her juta. В. .('• Л. Scorn/. ..."
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