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# juvenile

«juvenile» in Mova's school dictionary: **a young animal or person, not yet an adult** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (juvenile); noun (a juvenile, juveniles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A juvenile is a young animal or person, not yet an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/#m1)

2) Juvenile means to do with young people, as in a juvenile court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/#m2)

3) Juvenile also means childish or silly in a way that seems immature (said about grown-ups or older children). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, juvenile animals often look different from adults (juvenile gulls are brown). In law, a juvenile is someone under the adult age. Calling behaviour «juvenile» is a criticism.

### examples

- The juvenile eagle had brown feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/#x1)
- Juveniles go to a special court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/#x2)
- Stop that — it's so juvenile! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/#x3)
- The aquarium had juvenile sharks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/#x4)
- Juvenile fish hide in the seaweed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/#x5)
- Pulling faces at the teacher was juvenile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/#x6)

### note

Pronounced «JOO-vuh-nile». Formal or scientific word for «young».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «juvenile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/juvenile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.