full-grown
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of full-grown
First recorded in 1660–70
Example Sentences
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Although smaller than an adult T. rex, it was still a full-grown animal that lived in a far more diverse Late Cretaceous ecosystem than previously thought.
From Science Daily • Dec. 9, 2025
Consider, then, taking in a mammal that can fell a tree, chew through wire, weighs 30 to 60 pounds full-grown, loves to wrestle, needs to swim and can only defecate in water.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
“I have full-grown adults come up to me and tell me that I was their childhood.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025
Her play, about a lonely, full-grown man with an imaginary friend who drinks away his life at a tiki bar until he is aided by some residents of his small town outside Rochester, New York.
From Seattle Times • May 6, 2024
She had not been that strong since Virginia, since she loaded hay and handled the mule wagon like a full-grown man.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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