0 present 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:
Theoretical literature on the maturing individual tends to take one of two directions.
In addition, schistosomula introduced into the systemic arteries should be capable of completing their migration and maturing normally in the hepatic portal system.
These plausibly innate (but maturing), domain-specific cognitive faculties are candidates for naturally-selected adaptations to relevant and recurrent aspects of ancestral environments.
That is, seeds collected from early maturing capsules (basipetal) had greater mean weights than seeds harvested from late-maturing (acropetal) capsules.
A genetic blueprint may unfold, with different modules coming into play or maturing of capabilities within modules over time.
Table 4 shows the comparison between undeveloped (deformed and immature) and developed (maturing and infective) eggs.
Few academics any longer talk about students intellectually maturing as they participate in the professor's scholarly interests.
For me, a young scholar chafing under self-imposed limitations, he offered a model of the maturing and transforming senior scholar.
