FULL-GROWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does full-grown mean? 

• FULL-GROWN (adjective)
  The adjective FULL-GROWN has 1 sense:

1. (of animals) fully developed

  Familiarity information: FULL-GROWN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FULL-GROWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of animals) fully developed

Synonyms:

adult; big; full-grown; fully grown; grown; grownup

Context example:

a grown woman

Similar:

mature (having reached full natural growth or development)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

 Context examples 

Once, a full-grown female lynx was secured, and this time White Fang fought for his life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Even the offer of a kitten or even a full-grown cat will not tempt him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His very next trip he killed a young bear, nearly full-grown, and on the trip following, a large male bear and his mate.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

After about 100 million years, the objects mature into full-grown, terrestrial planets.

(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)

The inscription beneath it runs: 'Probable appearance in life of the Jurassic Dinosaur Stegosaurus. The hind leg alone is twice as tall as a full-grown man.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy is with truth considered 'the flower of the family', for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They were camped near the log store, where she, in her friendly way, made advances to a husky dog the size of a full-grown wolf, though not half so large as she.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Above twenty of those clad in this costume were full-grown girls, or rather young women; it suited them ill, and gave an air of oddity even to the prettiest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve-penny loaves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Another day a full-grown wolf, fresh-caught from the Wild, was shoved in through the door of the pen.

(White Fang, by Jack London)