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单词 full growth
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full growth
2. Stage in the process of growing; size or stature attained by growing. Obsolete except in full growth.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > size or stature attained by growing
waxa1500
growth1557
the world > life > the body > bodily height > [noun] > maximum attained by growth
full growth1678
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Q.ii A graffe of so small grothe.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. I5v Swines Flesh. Nor olde, nor thinne; but of a full groweth.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 160 A wassel candle my lord, al tallow, if I did say of wax, my growth would approue the truth. View more context for this quotation
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 322 The Elephant is for growth and understanding chiefest, of unreasonable Animalls.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 147 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Serpents..of so extraordinary a growth, that there are Serpents have swallowed children and sheep intire.
1678 J. Dryden All for Love iv. 46 Men are but Children of a larger growth.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 54 An Ox is come to its full growth at 6 years old.
a1732 J. Gay Acis & Galatea ii. 13 Bring me a hundred Reeds of decent Growth, To make a Pipe for my capacious Mouth.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 115 Pride has attained its most luxuriant growth, And poisoned every virtue in them both.
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xvii. 348 Between the shell and the exterior of the body, where they remain until the embryo attains its full growth.
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