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

The swan, full-grown by then, still slept in their son’s bedroom.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

Now — Feb. 5 King Conservation District’s Annual Bareroot Sale Note: ordering bareroot plants is significantly cheaper than full-grown plants, and these are available online.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

All in all, the researchers examined the vertebrae of 10 threshers, ranging from an embryo to full-grown adults over 13 feet long.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

This seemed a very long time to Julius, who used the interval to dismiss the four slaves who were now needed to manhandle the large cage containing the full-grown tiger.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks