full-grown

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of animals) fully developed
    a grown woman
    an adult animal
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How To Use full-grown In A Sentence

  • It is not an eminently ideal or sportsmanlike sort of fishing, this "jagging," but it possesses a marvellous enjoyment and fascination for the youth of ten, and older people as well; for a full-grown salmon is a powerful fellow, and his big, fluke-like tail enables him to make a terrific rush when under the influence of terror or when chasing his prey. A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904
  • Buffaloes, preferably full-grown bulls, are involved in funerals in two ways: some are contributed by consanguineal relatives and others are lent by affinal kin or even friends.
  • Farmers harvest the full-grown fish and restock the ponds with more fingerlings, meaning that several different ages of catfish are present in a pond at any one time.
  • Also, from my reading the kestrel is full-grown ... and a male. The Bird Below Is an American Kestrel...Not a Red-Tailed Hawk ...Which Makes the Story Even More Amazing
  • But unless we can stop them, the full-grown dogs of war are not far behind.
  • Those in charge of the experiment are quick to point out that this means full-grown watermelons will fit on refrigerator shelves and occupy less space during exportation.
  • The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster. A Study of Shakespeare
  • When these instructions had been carried out the decemvirs sacrificed full-grown victims in the forum at Ardea, and finally in the middle of December there was a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn, a lectisternium was ordered (the senators prepared the couch), and a public banquet. The History of Rome, Vol. III
  • It developed from a seed into a full-grown tree.
  • The weight of a working full-grown horse does not vary from day to day, as the weight of its egesta is equal to that of its food.
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