Definition of maturity

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

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Maturation :: Maturation (n.) The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter..
Maturer :: Maturer (n.) One who brings to maturity.
Adolescent :: Adolescent (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Maturative :: Maturative (a.) Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration..
Maturity :: Maturity (n.) The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan..
Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring..
Proterogynous :: Proterogynous (a.) Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.
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..
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..
Development :: Development (n.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization..
Ripeness :: Ripeness (n.) The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment..
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..
Maturing :: Maturing (a.) Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand..
Synanthous :: Synanthesis (n.) The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.
Maturate :: Maturate (a.) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
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..
Mature :: Mature (v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans..
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..
Perfection :: Perfection (n.) The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection..
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