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Reaching maturity
Answer for the clue "Reaching maturity ", 8 letters:
fledging
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of fledge English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fledge \Fledge\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Fledged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fledging .] To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight. The birds were not as yet fledged enough to shift for themselves. --L'Estrange. To furnish or ...
Usage examples of fledging.
But when they were fertile, they were like spotted hunting cats—sharing a territory just long enough to raise the dragonets to fledging, then parting again, and they would fight the dragon that had been a mate if there was a conflict over food, flock rank, or perches.
Only once in my wretched life did I make a fledging and that was over a century ago.
Though I couldn't read his thoughts as a fledging, surely I could divine something of what went on in his soul.
Colonel Jesse Wind, the chief of staff of the USE's fledging Air Force, was flying from Grantville to attend the first meeting of the combined chiefs of the armed forces.
Smith had ordered them lit after he was informed that Wind had allowed one of his fledging aviators to navigate their flight all the way from Grantville.