post-juvenile

alternative postjuvenile

1. not comparablePertaining to the developmental stage immediately following the juvenile period.

   Despite these ecological factors, the complete post-juvenile moult also appears to have a phylogenetic background.

   2020, Lukas Jenni, Raffael Winkler, Moult and Ageing of European Passerines, page 84

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   It is quite possible that muskrat kits, which are weaned at approximately 30 days of age, may also reflect the effects of insufficient food in the time at which the post-juvenile growth of hair occurs and is completed.

   1963, Arlyn F. Linde, Muskrat Pelt Patterns and Primeness, page 55

   The essay addresses the complex interface between 'welfare' and 'justic' systems and it also takes account of post-juvenile justice interventions and the ways in which young adults are processed within and across the four jurisdictions.

   2018, Barry Goldson, Juvenile Justice in Europe: Past, Present and Future

plural post-juveniles · alternative postjuvenile

1. An individual in the post-juvenile stage.

   A total of 1,544 juveniles and post-juveniles were recorded.

   2008, Marc Jabin, Influence of Environmental Factors on the Distribution Pattern of Centipedes (Chilopoda) and Other Soil Arthropods in Temperate Deciduous Forests, page 18

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   It includes only the intrinsic influence on juvenile survival and considers that the competition takes place between juveniles and post-juveniles rather than within the juvenile category itself.

   1950, Oscar E. Sette, Studies on the Pacific Pilchard Or Sardine (S̲a̲ṟḏi̲ṉo̲p̲s̲), page 28

   Post-juveniles can hardly be confused with other species within the treated range (though must be separated from some closely related extralimital species in Asia and Africa; see Alström & Mild 2003).

   2018, Hadoram Shirihai, Lars Svensson, Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds, Volume 1