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English
Etymology
From Middle English *fulgrowen, fulgrowe, ful growe, equivalent to full + grown. Compare Middle English fulwaxen, fullwaxen (“full-grown”), from Old English fullweaxen (“full-grown”).
Adjective
full-grown (not comparable)
- (of living things, especially animals) Fully developed; adult.
- Fully developed in a broader sense; complete, at one’s height.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XXXIX, page 61:[…] And, doubtless, unto thee is given
A life that bears immortal fruit
In such great offices as suit
The full-grown energies of heaven.
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Translations
having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal