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Definition of Highly-developed
1. Adjective. (used of societies) having high industrial development. "Developed countries"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highly-developed
Literary usage of Highly-developed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Special states having the most highly developed Legislation, legislation the
general provisions of the statutes have, from time to time, been supplemented ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... competition with the technically highly developed British industries).
The fundamental change for a protective policy was marked by the Tariff Law of ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... scorpion is viviparous, and the young are produced in a highly'developed
condition as fully formed scorpions. Differences between Limulus and Scorpio. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"highly developed, and the other atrophying, according to sex. This fact, of
course, points back conclusively to primitive ancestors of fishes, reptiles, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Above all, among insects, which are so largely the prey of birds, of reptiles,
and of other animals possessing highly developed vision, ..."
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