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Abortion
noun · 78% connection
The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining l…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Advance
adjective · 78% connection
Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Anticipate
verb · 78% connection
To take up or introduce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate ha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Anticipation
noun · 78% connection
The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Benting time
unknown · 78% connection
The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Com-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Dendrology
noun · 78% connection
A discourse or treatise on trees; the natural history of trees.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Development
noun · 78% connection
The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or me…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Gonotheca
noun · 78% connection
A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are develop…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Hasty
noun · 78% connection
Forward; early; first ripe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Larva
noun · 78% connection
The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Late
verb · 78% connection
Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Mature
superl. · 78% connection
Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or st…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Natural
adjective · 78% connection
in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Neuter
noun · 78% connection
An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Notochord
noun · 78% connection
An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Orchard
noun · 78% connection
An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plum…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
Pre-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place befo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ripe, mature, before, proper, natural.
