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Word entry · 10 letters

precocious

Best crossword clue

"Early developing"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /pɹəˈkəʊʃəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cceiooprsuStarts with PEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. appearing or developing early

Word origin

From Latin praecox (“premature, precocious, ripe before time, early ripe”), from praecoquō (“to ripen beforehand, ripen fully, also boil beforehand”), from prae (“before”) + coquō (“to cook, boil, ripen”). Doublet of apricot.

Used in a sentence

  • The precocious plant was already blooming flowers by day 4.
  • She's precocious and she knows just / What it takes to make a pro blush
  • Scotland’s most encouraging early source of an attacking threat was Andrew Robertson as the precocious left-back charged forward to good effect on a couple of occasions.

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