<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.</li><li>Ripe, as fruit, or fully aged, as cheese or wine.</li><li>Fully developed in body or mind, as a person: She was a mature woman who took her family responsibilities seriously.</li><li>Noting or pertaining to an adult who is middle-aged or older (used euphemistically): discrimination against mature applicants.</li><li>Pertaining to or characteristic of full development: a mature appearance; fruit with a mature softness.</li><li>Completed, perfected, or elaborated in full by the mind: mature plans.</li><li>(Of an industry, technology, market, etc.) no longer developing or expanding; having little or no potential for further growth or expansion; exhausted or saturated.</li><li>Intended for or restricted to adults, especially by reason of explicit sexual content or the inclusion of violence or obscene language: mature movies.</li><li>Composed of adults, considered as being less susceptible than minors to explicit sexual content, violence, or obscene language, as of a film or stage performance: for mature audiences only.</li><li>Finance: having reached the limit of its time; having become payable or due: a mature bond.</li><li>Medicine/Medical: having attained definitive form or function, as by maturation of an epithelium from a basal layer.</li><li>Having attained the end stage of a normal or abnormal biological process: a mature boil.</li><li>Geology: (of a landscape) exhibiting the stage of maximum topographical diversity, as in the cycle of erosion of a land surface.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) to make mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.</li><li>To bring to full development: His hard experiences in the city matured him.</li><li>To complete or perfect: We matured our vision for the company.</li><li>To become mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.</li><li>To come to full development: Our plans have not yet matured.</li><li>Finance: to become due, as a note.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>