Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nearly full grown; approaching the adult condition.
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- adjective
Not yet adult . - noun A person who, or animal that, is not yet an adult.
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Examples
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Reconstruction of adult and subadult skulls of Bistahieversor.
Meet Abydosaurus and Bistahieversor greygirlbeast 2010
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Bistahieversor, known from both adult and subadult specimens from the Kirtland Formation, would have measured some thirty feet in life.
Meet Abydosaurus and Bistahieversor greygirlbeast 2010
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Bistahieversor, known from both adult and subadult specimens from the Kirtland Formation, would have measured some thirty feet in life.
"If there really was a God here, he'd have raised a hand by now." thingunderthest 2010
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I spent three blissful months sleeping in a tent at night and following the three subadult emus by day, almost every day, recording their every movement.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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The juvenile is based on Brachyceratops montanensis (Gilmore, 1917), and the subadult is, of course, a modified Monoclonius lowei (Sternberg, 1940).
Archive 2009-03-01 Prehistoric Insanity 2009
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The juvenile is based on Brachyceratops montanensis (Gilmore, 1917), and the subadult is, of course, a modified Monoclonius lowei (Sternberg, 1940).
Life's Time Capsule: The Ceratopsians Gallery Traumador 2009
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Here is a subadult Eobania vermiculata that hasn't yet formed the reflected lip of adult shells.
Archive 2008-10-01 AYDIN 2008
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The recent discovery of several exceptionally well preserved juvenile and subadult Triceratops skulls and numerous juvenile, subadult, and adult cranial elements, from the Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana, confirms the ontogeny and morphology of epi-ossifications: epinasal, epijugal, epiparietal, and episquamosal.
Triceratops cranial epi-ossifications ReBecca Foster 2008
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The recent discovery of several exceptionally well preserved juvenile and subadult Triceratops skulls and numerous juvenile, subadult, and adult cranial elements, from the Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana, confirms the ontogeny and morphology of epi-ossifications: epinasal, epijugal, epiparietal, and episquamosal.
Archive 2008-04-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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Here is a subadult Eobania vermiculata that hasn't yet formed the reflected lip of adult shells.
A snail of cities: Eobania vermiculata AYDIN 2008
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