full-grown
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of full-grown
First recorded in 1660–70
Example Sentences
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Estimates suggest Nanotyrannus reached about 18 feet in length, making it significantly smaller than a full-grown T. rex, which could exceed 40 feet.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
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
His sister, Elaine, a child when he left “was already a full-grown woman.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 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
Amy is with truth considered ‘the flower of the family’, for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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