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adjective as in adult, grown-up

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complete, cultivated, cultured, developed, fit, grown, mellow, mellowed, perfected, prepared, prime, ready, ripe, ripened, seasoned, settled

verb as in become adult, fully grown

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advance, age, arrive, culminate, flower, maturate, perfect, prime, progress, round, season

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The scientists used a unique empirical dataset, taking data from 40 plots of mature European beech forests across the state of Lower Saxony in Germany.

The idea of maturing oocytes in the ovary to produce offspring has been implemented in various ways.

“Our service has matured quickly and our riders are embracing the many benefits of fully autonomous driving.”

That might come, of course — sitcoms, if they’re allowed to go on, tend to mature like wine — or it might not.

This particular type of parmesan, which requires at least a year to mature, is created by following a process that has been in place, with little modification, for almost 1,000 years.