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1: the process of growing into a youth

1: of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people; "juvenile diabetes"; "juvenile fashions" 2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity";...

1: a congenital progressive disorder of lipid metabolism having an onset at age 5 and characterized by blindness and dementia and early death [syn: {Spielmeyer-Vogt disease}]

1: the body of a young person

1: a court having jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children

1: an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor [syn: {delinquency}]

1: a young offender [syn: {delinquent}]

1: severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are requir...

1: a youthful person [syn: {juvenile}] [ant: {adult}]

1: a form of rheumatoid arthritis that affects children; large joints become inflamed and bone growth may be retarded [syn: {Still's disease}]

1: a small benign growth on the faces of hands of children

1: severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are requir...

1: lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life [syn: {callowness}, {jejuneness}] 2: the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person [syn: {youth}, {youthfulness}]

1: place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors"

1: placed side by side often for comparison; "juxtaposed pictures"

1: the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" [syn: {apposition}, {collocation}] 2: a side-by-side position

1: a college or university team that competes at a level below the varsity team [syn: {junior varsity}]

1: the third month of the Hindu calendar [syn: {Jeth}]

1: peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany [syn: {Jutland}]

1: wrynecks [syn: {genus Jynx}]