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half-grown

half-grown adjective: not fully grown or matured; roughly halfway through its growth cycle.

Adjective

half-grown (not comparable)

  1. Not fully grown or matured; roughly halfway through its growth cycle.
    • The tendency to mimic is particularly strong in half-grown puppies.2020, Kyra Sundance, The Joy of Dog Training, page 69

Questions about half-grown

What does half-grown mean?
Half-grown means not fully grown or matured; roughly halfway through its growth cycle.
What part of speech is half-grown?
Half-grown is an adjective.

Words near half-grown in the dictionary

  1. half-gip
  2. half-gips
  3. half-god
  4. half-gods
  5. half-graben
  6. half-grown
  7. half-gyp
  8. half-gyps
  9. half-half
  10. half-halt
  11. half-halts

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