fully grown
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1.8
- adjective
- /ˈfʊli ɡroʊn/
:
completamente desarrollado
- I'm a fully grown woman.
- fully grown adult
It's very hard to enslave and control fully grown men, for obvious reasons.
- It's very hard to enslave and control fully grown men, for obvious reasons.
- I had just gotten out of the juvenile system and I was fully grown.
- So they've seen it right from seedling to fully grown plant.
- I think baby tigers are cute, but I'm far more fascinated with a fully grown tiger.
- Although I was very brave and violent and I would fight fully grown men, I'm still a scared child in there.
- And then you've got a fully grown man leaning into you in front of all your friends saying what did you say?
- Help make this fully grown adult man's dream come true.
- My friend knew and her mum knew and her mum was a fully grown adult at this point.
- And if you extrapolate our future descendants, maybe thousands, hundreds of thousands of years from now, fully grown, will look like our children today.
Examples
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She will be 50 feet long when fully grown.
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Now that she was fully grown, Katya never feared the woods by daylight.
Fiction book (2001) -
But believe me when I say this: you are a fully grown adult.
Blog text (18) -
You are an adult; a fully grown man or woman.
Blog text (18) -
I have said dogs are able to distinguish between a fully grown adult and a child.
Blog text (6) -
I think baby tigers are cute, but I'm far more fascinated with a fully grown tiger.
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Bubba is a fully-grown silverback gorilla.
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Because a fully grown adult weighs only about 2 kilograms, foxes remain targets for hungry eagles throughout their lives.
Academic text (2010) -
To maximize our chances of establishing colonies, we planned to release both adult butterflies and fully grown caterpillars.
Academic text (2006) -
A fully grown tree provides shade and shelter for many animals.
Synonyms
110
1.0
Fully grown and mature
15
2.2
An animal, plant, or person that has reached full adult size
1
1.5
An animal or person that is an adult, not a young one
1
1.0
An animal or person that has reached full size and is an adult
Antonyms
How Mature
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'having reached full size or maturity' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'fully' (completely) with 'grown' (developed/mature). This is a regular modifier + adjective construction common across languages and predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Fully grown comes from the simple picture of a young plant or animal that has finished growing, where fully means 'completely' and grown means 'has reached its size', like a small tree becoming tall and full of leaves. That's why fully grown means 'having reached full size'.