adolescent |
having to do with the period when a person is changing from a child to an adult. [2 definitions] |
adulthood |
the part of life when a person is grown up; the adult years. |
baby tooth |
one of the first set of teeth in human babies and other mammals. Baby teeth fall out early in life to be replaced by adult teeth. |
bar mitzvah |
a Jewish ceremony that celebrates a boy becoming an adult and the beginning of his religious duties. The bar mitzvah usually takes place when the boy is thirteen years old. |
bat mitzvah |
a Jewish ceremony that celebrates a girl becoming an adult and the beginning of her religious duties. The bat mitzvah usually takes place when the girl is thirteen years old. |
buck1 |
an adult male deer, goat, or rabbit. Adult males of some similar animals are also called bucks. |
bull1 |
an adult male of several kinds of mammals, such as cattle and elephants. |
chaperone |
an adult who goes along with young people in a social situation to make sure they behave properly and are safe. |
chrysalis |
the hard outside covering on a moth or butterfly while it is a pupa, the stage before it becomes an adult with wings. Many kinds of moths and butterflies make a chrysalis instead of a cocoon. Chrysalis is also sometimes used as another name for the pupa itself. |
cock1 |
an adult male chicken or the male of other closely related birds, such as turkeys or pheasants; rooster. [1/3 definitions] |
cocoon |
a covering made by young insects and some other arthropods to protect themselves while they change from a pupa into an adult. Some spiders make cocoons to hide their eggs. |
cow1 |
the adult female of cattle. [1/2 definitions] |
doe |
an adult female deer, goat, or rabbit. Adult females of some similar animals are also called does. |
down2 |
fine, soft, fuzzy feathers. Down covers young birds. Down is also found underneath the outside feathers of some adult birds. |
drake |
an adult male duck. |
ewe |
an adult female sheep. |
gander |
an adult male goose. |
godparent |
an adult who promises at a child's baptism to take on certain responsibilities for the child. |
grown-up |
having become an adult. [1/2 definitions] |
grow up |
to become an adult; to mature. |
guardian |
an adult chosen by law to be responsible for the care and protection of a child or a person who cannot care for himself or herself. [1/2 definitions] |