precocious

[US]/prɪˈkəʊʃəs/
[UK]/prɪˈkoʊʃəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. showing exceptionally early development or maturity, especially in mental ability
adv. in a precocious manner; developing or maturing earlier than usual
n. the state or quality of being precocious; early development or maturity

Phrases & Collocations

precocious puberty

Example Sentences

a precocious talent for computing.

he was a precocious, solitary boy.

What a precocious child—reading Jane Austen at the age of ten!

Results:All patients presented as precocious puberty or gelasmus epilepsy.

They are in thrall not to John Maynard Keynes, sage of the Depression, but to his Cambridge contemporary, Frank Ramsey, a precocious polymath who made his contributions in the prelapsarian 1920s.

10. ②Large dose CHM and middle dose CHM can able to inhibit the occurrence of the true precocious puberty induced by NMA in femal rats, and remain the rat’s gonada and BD in normal prepuberty level.

Juvenile branchlets glabrous; mature leaf blade 30-70 × 10-30 cm; male catkin cylindric, 2-3 cm; flowering precocious or coetaneous; shrubs more than 1 m tall.

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