adult

adult
    adj 1: (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown
           woman" [syn: {adult}, {big}, {full-grown}, {fully grown},
           {grown}, {grownup}]
    2: designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines";
       "adult movies" [syn: {pornographic}, {adult}]
    n 1: a fully developed person from maturity onward [syn:
         {adult}, {grownup}] [ant: {juvenile}, {juvenile person}]
    2: any mature animal
    

Adult \A*dult"\, a. [L. adultus, p. p. of adolescere, akin to
   alere to nourish: cf. F. adulte. See {Adolescent}, {Old}.]
   Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength;
   matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult
   age.
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Adult \A*dult"\, n.
   A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength;
   one who has reached maturity.
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   Note: In the common law, the term is applied to a person who
         has attained full age or legal majority; in the civil
         law, to males after the age of fourteen, and to females
         after twelve.
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ADULT, in the civil law. An infant who, if a boy, has attained his full age
of fourteen years, and if a girl, her full age of twelve. Domat, Liv. Prel.
t. 2, s. 2, n. 8. In the common law an adult is considered one of full age.
1 Swanst. R. 553.
    

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "adult":
      aged, big, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, grown, grown up,
      grown-up, marriable, marriageable, mature, matured, maturescent,
      nubile, of age, of marriageable age, old, ripe, ripened