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maturation n. [
ripening, maturement] coming to full development; becoming mature
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maturation n. [
growth, growing, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
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maturation n. [
festering, suppuration] (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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