Definition of adult

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

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Imago :: Imago (n.) The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm..
Adulteration :: Adulteration (n.) The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture..
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..
Trichina :: Trichina (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their
Adultery :: Adultery (n.) The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband..
D8gregarin91 :: d8Gregarin91 (n. pl.) An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria..
Bittern :: Bittern (a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer..
Kingbird :: Kingbird (n.) A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show
Adulterant :: Adulterant (a.) Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes..
Adulterate :: Adulterate (v. t.) To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc..
Woman :: Woman (n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person..
Impure :: Impure (a.) Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc..
Condonation :: Condonation (n.) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated..
Air Bladder :: Air bladder () An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus..
Adultery :: Adultery (n.) Faithlessness in religion.
Adulterize :: Adulterize (v. i.) To commit adultery.
Adultery :: Adultery (n.) Adulteration; corruption.
True :: True (n.) Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian..
Unadulterate :: Unadulterate (a.) Alt. of Unadulterate.
Adulterer :: Adulterer (n.) A man who violates his religious covenant.
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