WordNet
adj. (of a bird) having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly [syn: full-fledged]
(of persons e.g.) having gained full status; "a full-fledged lawyer"; "by the age of seventeen I was a full-fledged atheist"; "sees itself as a fully fledged rival party" [syn: full-fledged]
Usage examples of "fully fledged".
Everybeast cheered wildly and tears sprang unbidden to the eyes of Abbess Vale at the sight of the young squirrel, now a fully fledged warrior wielding the great blade in the sunlight.
He wasn't even fully fledged when he made his first foray onto the ground.
They were fully fledged already, and almost as large as their mother.
It is unlikely that a fully fledged DNA molecule would spring into existence without the aid of other molecules that normally exist only in living cells.
In it Mordred could see the two young birds, fully fledged but still obviously juveniles.