full-grown

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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

But how did the stone, which weighs about as much as a full-grown bison, end up in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024

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

But unlike a full-grown T. rex, which would be about the size of a city bus, this dinosaur was more like the size of a pickup truck.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2024

Marcello Malpighi showed that the parts of the full-grown tree were present in the seed.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton