half-grown
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A few hours later pugmarks from three cats were spotted together—the mom, her half-grown son and the baby, reunited.
From Scientific American • Apr. 22, 2023
The wind billowing out the seat of my britches, My feet crackling splinters of glass and dried putty, The half-grown chrysanthemums staring up like accusers … And everyone, everyone pointing up and shouting!
From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2021
I get that Dart was implied to be the slug Will barfed up last year, but how did we go from one full-grown Demogorgon to like, a hundred half-grown demo-dogs?
From The Verge • Oct. 31, 2017
I was 16 when, at the end of a particularly tedious summer term, I returned to peacetime Brittany a half-grown English misfit.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2017
Working his way down a row in the garden that afternoon, pulling weeds, he had turned around to find eighteen-month-old Mike following him, imitating him, happily plucking half-grown carrots out of the ground.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
