0 past simple and past participle of mature
1 to become more developed mentally and emotionally and behave in a responsible way:
2 to become completely grown physically:
3 to allow food and wine to become old enough for the flavour to develop completely:
4 If an insurance agreement or an investment matures, it becomes ready to be paid:
Effects of porcine follicular fluid on male pronucleus formation in porcine oocytes matured in vitro.
As once essentially residential communities matured, politicians sought to raise their tax revenues whilst retaining small-scale, almost village life, within an increasingly urbanized milieu.
The fact remains: hunter-gatherers were 122 important in the eighteenth century precisely because economic thought had matured.
Oocytes matured off axis developed a maturation spot more eccentric than that in oocytes matured in an upright position.
This increase relative to wild type mice was lost as animals matured.
In other words, as the animals matured their eosinophil concentrations became closer to a log-normal distribution.
The membership as a whole matured by one year over the six years between 1917 and 1923.
Although nuclear maturation of immature hamster oocytes readily occurred in vitro, fertilisability of the matured oocytes was very low.
