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noun
The process of becoming mature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
The process of maturating, or suppurating fully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: festering, suppuration
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
noun
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: growth, growing, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organic process, biological process
Narrower terms: culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence, cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation, morphogenesis, myelinization, myelinisation, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, teething, dentition, odontiasis, teratogenesis, vegetation
noun
coming to full development; becoming mature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: ripening, maturement
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organic process, biological process
History
From Middle English maturacioun, from Middle French maturation, from Latin maturatio. By surface analysis, mature + -ation.
Across languages
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
