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complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms.

ripe, as fruit, or fully aged, as cheese or wine.

fully developed in body or mind, as a person.

noting or pertaining to an adult who is middle-aged or older (used euphemistically).

pertaining to or characteristic of full development.

completed, perfected, or elaborated in full by the mind.

(of an industry, technology, market, etc.) no longer developing or expanding; having little or no potential for further growth or expansion; exhausted or saturated.

intended for or restricted to adults, especially by reason of explicit sexual content or the inclusion of violence or obscene language.

composed of adults, considered as being less susceptible than minors to explicit sexual content, violence, or obscene language, as of a film or stage performance.

Finance.��having reached the limit of its time; having become payable or due.

Medicine/Medical.��

1. having attained definitive form or function, as by maturation of an epithelium from a basal layer.

2. having attained the end stage of a normal or abnormal biological process.

   a mature boil.

Geology.��(of a landscape) exhibiting the stage of maximum topographical diversity, as in the cycle of erosion of a land surface.

to make mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.

to bring to full development.

to complete or perfect.

to become mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.

to come to full development.

Finance.��to become due, as a note.