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Adult vs Prelocalization - What's the difference?

adult | prelocalization |

As nouns the difference between adult and prelocalization

is that adult is a fully grown human or animal while prelocalization is (biology) the original localization of structures in an unsegmented embryo that become specific organs in the adult.

As an adjective adult

is fully grown.

As a verb adult

is to (cause to) be or become an.

adult

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fully grown human or animal.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fully grown.
  • an adult human, animal, or plant
  • Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
  • adult clothes
  • Containing material of an explicit sexual nature
  • adult content
    an adult movie

    Synonyms

    * (fully grown) big, fully grown, grown up * (unsuitable for children) blue, dirty, lewd, obscene

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To (cause to) be or become an .
  • * 1974 , Occasional Papers (Syracuse University), issues 42-46, page 5:
  • Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted "; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five,
  • * 2013 , Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
  • * 2013 , Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art (ISBN 364390374X), page 84:
  • The process of adulting children,
  • * (seemoreCites)
  • prelocalization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) The original localization of structures in an unsegmented embryo that become specific organs in the adult