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The manners or character of youth; immaturity. Glanvill.

nuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will . . . lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. Ezek. xxxvii. 5, 6.…

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen. A tree may be maturated artificially. Fuller.

The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.

To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans. Bacon.

The state or quality of being mature; maturity.

One who brings to maturity.

Approaching maturity.

Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.

An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the l…

Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority. The human mind . . . was still in its nonage. Coleridge.

y fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.

ulture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.

Having the stamens come to maturity before the pistil; -- opposed to proterogynous.

Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.

To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring. He wants a father to protect his youth, And rear him up to virtue. Southern.

om a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.

The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment. Time, which made them their fame outlive, To Cowley scarce did ripeness give. Denham.

A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one- seeded portions.