mature

She's quite mature for her age.

They are emotionally mature.

You and I are mature, freethinking adults.

Yeah, they're fully mature on the flight out.

In the next century, however, it was the mature assembly that took on decision-making responsibility.

There is usually a good deal of turnover in species composition, even in a mature community.

Nevertheless, mature natural environments are usually in equilibrium.

In fact, for mature soils in many parts of the world, the predominant type of natural vegetation is considered the most important direct influence on soil characteristics.

The mature ponderosa trees have bark two inches thick and are relatively resistant to fire, which instead burns out the understory - the lower layer - of fire-sensitive Douglas fir seedlings that have grown up since the previous fire.

In a mature floodplain tropical forest in the Amazon River basin, the canopy (the uppermost layers of a forest, formed by the crowns of trees) takes on a stratified structure.

The rate at which a site is colonized by plants depends on both the rate at which individual organisms (seeds, spores, immature or mature individuals) arrive at the site and their success at becoming established and surviving.

When the trees matured they were cut in certain areas.

Probably the most important environmental factor is temperature, for if the growing season is too short and temperatures are too low, tree shoots and buds cannot mature sufficiently to survive the winter months.

Now you have some birds that are quiet mature, are quite capable almost as soon as they hatch.

You will learn what to expect as your child matures physically.

The eggs hatched and the chicks matured.

An annual plant will mature and produce seeds in a single season that will become the next generation of annual plants.

And sure enough, biologists noticed that around Cape Cod, the cod were beginning to mature at an earlier age than normal.

Prior to the population collapse, cod usually took about 8 to 10 years to fully mature, to start to reproduce, and they lived around 40 years total.

Remember, they mature quickly and the weather’s nice.

Your fixed account is mature and can be withdrawn any time.

These markings are seen only on mature male birds.

It is his most mature comedy yet.

Grate some mature cheddar cheese.

He was a man of mature years who had been in the job for longer than most of the members could remember.

These bonuses will be paid when your savings plan matures in ten years' time.

Unlike wine, brandy matures only in wood, not glass.

Hopefully after three years at university I will have matured.

I thought you had matured enough not to be giggly and silly about serious art.

Her style had not yet matured.

Their songwriting has matured.