what does maturation mean?
MATURATION as NOUN
- Meaning
- (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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Hypernyms(s) maturation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically
- a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
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- he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
Hypernyms(s) maturation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- coming to full development
- becoming mature
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Hypernyms(s) maturation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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