adult
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1.0
- noun
- /əˈdʌlt/
:
adulto
- Many coastal species are highly mobile as adults, with individuals traversing entire ocean basins.
- adult females
- adult males
- juveniles and adults
They can kill other adults within their own group.
- They can kill other adults within their own group.
- I I've heard some people suck the heads of these adults.
Examples
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In the adult the heart rate averages 70 to 80 beats a minute.
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As adults, they flit around for about five weeks of activity in the hot sun, and then they die.
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It's not very common that adult animals play.
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- They found a body of an adult male.
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With 20 winter migrations behind him, this adult has been through it all before.
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One, two, three... four, five... six adult oryx.
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What we have here are two adult male baboons grooming each other.
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In 2005, the expert assessment was that 115 adult tigers inhabited those sixteen sites.
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The authors carried out a prospective study of 1,426 adult patients discharged from 11 acute care hospitals in Israel.
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It's not very common that adult animals play in the wild.
Synonyms
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2.3
A person who is an adult, not a child
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
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A long-term condition in adults where the body cannot use blood sugar and is often treated with diet or pills
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7.4
A serious illness in which the lungs are damaged and fill with fluid so oxygen cannot reach the blood
- Archaic
A long-term condition in adults that makes the body unable to use sugar well and usually needs diet and pills
How Old
Surface Forms
Etymology
Adult comes from the old Latin word adultus, which means 'grown', from the verb adolescere 'to grow up'. So an adult animal is one that is fully grown and not a young or baby animal.