Search results for "Maturity" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • are released when the capsule splits open at maturity. Image:Hibiscus1.jpg|A hibiscus, showing pistil and stamens Image:Hibiscus-stages.jpg|At ...
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  • wall becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity and does not split along a definite seam. A seed, such as a peanut, comes from fruit and can be ...
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  • Yeats came to maturity at the beginning of the twentieth century and ... The long title poem, the first that he would not disown in his maturity ...
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  • is that the halibut does not reach sexual maturity until roughly eight years ... years of age while females attain sexual maturity at 8 to 12 years. Females ...
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  • to soak up metals in soils. When the plants reach maturity, they are removed and disposed of as hazardous wastes, as the metal contaminants have become ...
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  • to females by showing the good health and maturity of their bearer. Some bovids use their horns to dig for food or to pull down tree branches ...
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  • people endure as they seek to grow in spiritual maturity and union with God. A year after writing this poem, in 1586 he wrote a commentary on Dark Night ...
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  • Such an influence helped to cultivate a personal maturity in his followers that rewarded self-evaluation and mastery of an artistic style. ...
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  • through recognizing the rationality and maturity of human beings and their quest to make a valuable contribution beyond themselves to their community ...
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  • medium-size trees, 15-30 meters tall at maturity, with leaves that are simple ... the fruit is picked once it reaches maturity; Mexican growers pick Hass ...
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  • Bluefin tuna mature slowly, reaching sexual maturity at about 5 years ... that bluefin born in the east reach maturity a year or two earlier than ...
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  • have large canines that come with maturity. Blackbacks are sexually mature males of up to 11 years of age. Silverbacks are the strong, dominant ...
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  • Technopark Kerala refers to a technology park in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India dedicated to electronics, software, and other Information ...
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  • to breed, but to bring successfully to a healthy maturity, specimens of this rare alliance between those two great and formidable felidae, the lion and ...
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  • can be as low as nine months. Sexual maturity is reached between 2.5 and 4 years. Most communication among giant anteaters occurs between young ...
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  • However, when he reached his maturity he was made ruler of several of the fragmented Serbian states and began the task of reunifying the Serb ...
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  • Winter squash is the category for those squash harvested at maturity, generally the end of summer, cured to further harden the skin, and stored ...
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  • is less clear. As humankind develops greater maturity, learning to live harmoniously for the sake of others, our understanding of how to regulate ...
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  • The males reach sexual maturity around ten years, although some do so as early as seven. They go into rut in January through April, increasing ...
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  • reaching just three millimeters at maturity (Pierrot-Bults 2004). The arrow worm's alimentary system comprises the mouth, esophagus, gut ...
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  • one. Among their five children, four lived to maturity: Henry, born in 952; Bruno, born 953; Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, born about 954; and ...
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  • the illusion of mass, the appearance of maturity or advanced age, and the ... called jin and shari to simulate age and maturity in a bonsai. Jin is the ...
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  • and of order within society, suggest a maturity that is often associated ... of order within society, all suggest a maturity that is often associated ...
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  • night), Hines thus played with the perfection of maturity without missing any of his original vitality. The last few years of his life are without question ...
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  • the age of 16, is regarded as having reached maturity. They are then permitted to attend the Sunday night "singings" that are the focus ...
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  • lives or forming loose groups after sexual maturity. The word mammoth comes from the Russian мамонт mamont, probably in turn from the Vogul ...
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  • *Delayed sexual maturity among males relative to females of the same species, or to males of related species with different mating systems. ...
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  • (2-9 inches) long, which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds. Oleander is native to a broad area from Morocco and Portugal ...
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  • only in juveniles. That is, they reach sexual maturity without undergoing metamorphosis. Many species within the axolotl's genus are either ...
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  • (strong) within the cage, his strength came to maturity (like wood in grain) while he was in the bondage of his enemies. As the large trunked elephant ...
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  • === Maturity === Left without a job, his vision beginning to fade, and unable to fully support himself as a writer, Borges began a new career ...
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  • for a short time. The black rat reaches sexual maturity in 80 days; its longest recorded life was four years and two months (Nowak 1986). Most rat ...
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  • squid. It is thought that they reach sexual maturity at about 3 years; males reach sexual maturity at a smaller size than females. Females produce ...
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  • by the Alexandrians until her sons reached maturity. Damascius also gave a description of Aedesia and Hermeias' eldest child, who died at age ...
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  • from the dependence of infancy to the maturity of adulthood. This is a ... that mark an individual's growth to maturity. Just as the stages of childhood ...
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  • As Henry reached maturity, he was keen to restore royal authority, looking towards the autocratic model of the French monarchy. Henry married ...
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  • considerably between pollination and maturity. The fruit is a two to four-valved capsule, green to reddish-brown, which matures in mid summer ...
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  • grass and legumes at the proper stage of maturity must be cut, then allowed ... flower heads are just a bit short of full maturity. When growth is at a maximum ...
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  • of the ages of man in the famous Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death, one critic said, "He accomplishes in less than two minutes what most ...
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  • remains in his father's home after maturity. When he becomes married ... to her father in youth, her husband in maturity, and her son in old age ...
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  • and prose delineating the need for personal maturity and making a contribution to society. De Pizan completed forty-one pieces during her thirty ...
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  • The maturity of the alligator is dependent more upon the size of the animal than its age. An American alligator is generally considered mature ...
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  • years, the sex organs develop further to maturity and the animal becomes sexually ... them continuously from the time of sexual maturity until death. They are motile ...
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  • came six boys. Within twelve days the boys grew to maturity. One of them, named Suro, became the king of Geumgwan Gaya, and the other five founded the ...
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  • #Reasonably fast growth rate--Fast maturity rate compared to the human life span allows breeding intervention and makes the animal useful within ...
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  • his work and when his ideas peaked to full maturity belongs to what historians today call the Progressive Era. As many progressives of his day, Ely ...
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  • six or seven feet (2 meters) in length at maturity, and three to five feet ... can take place every two to four years in maturity. Sea turtles make from four ...
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  • weights of up to 155 kg (340 lb). At sexual maturity (two to four years old), male ostriches can be between 1.8 and 2.7 meters (6 and 9 feet) in height ...
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  • The Beluga sturgeon can take up to 20 years to reach maturity, and can reach a size of 2000 pounds. The eggs themselves are the largest of the ...
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  • In the great poems of his maturity, Hölderlin would generally adopt a large-scale, expansive and unrhymed style. Together with these long hymns ...
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