Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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