a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls"
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems"
not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing"
being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; "the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook"; "they have very small limbs with only two fully developed toes on each"
(of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads; "condominiums were built on the developed site"
(used of societies) having high industrial development; "developed countries"
reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent
having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life; "flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population"