Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Becoming mature; waxing ripe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Approaching maturity.

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  • adjective Approaching maturity.

Etymologies

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Latin maturescens, present participle of maturescere to become ripe, verb inchoate from maturus. See mature (adjective).

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