submatureadj.

1888 J. S. Newberry Fossil Fishes & Fossil Plants ii. 49 We must conclude that in the material now before us we have only mature or submature fishes.

1920 Trans. Amer. Gynecol. Soc. 45 45 We induce labor, if we are wise, in contractions of the pelvis before the crisis appears even when the child is submature.

1976 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 45 643 There was an almost constant movement of sub-mature or mature rats into and out of the field populations.

2006 Novon 16 88/1 The color of the mature fruit is not definitely known—all collections note a greenish immature or yellow-green submature fruit.

1899 W. M. Davis in Amer. Geologist 23 210 The unevenness of the uplands of to-day is a natural result of imperfect peneplanation followed by submature dissection.

1922 C. A. Cotton Geomorphol. N.Z. i. xxviii. 415 The coast has passed through the stage of youth and has become sub-mature.

1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. xiii. 192/1 A submature valley formed on this surface, later to be dammed by a basalt flow.

2005 P. J. Craul et al. Longleaf Pine Site Zones 8/2 As a result of weak rocks and submature dissection it is a district of gently rolling hills with broad rounded summits.