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Immature vs Altrices - What's the difference?

immature | altrices |

As an adjective immature

is not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.

As a noun altrices is

(zoology) nursers; those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time.

immature

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
  • Silly or childish in behavior, not mature.
    • You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.
  • * .
    • The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

    Related terms

    * mature * immaturity ----

    altrices

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (zoology) nursers; those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time.

    • Antonyms

    * praecoces (Webster 1913) ----