• enPR: prĭ-kō'shəs, IPA: /pɹəˈkəʊʃəs/

precocious

1. Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.

   The precocious plant was already blooming flowers by day 4.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 5:

     Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.

2. Exhibiting advanced skills and aptitudes at an abnormally early age.

   The precocious child began reading the newspaper at age four.

   • 1964, Sherman Brothers, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, Mary Poppins, Walt Disney Mary: Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious / If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious.

• tranty

• altricious
• serotinous

• precocity

• French: précoce
• German: frühreif
• Italian: precoce
• Portuguese: precoce
• Russian: скороспелый
• Spanish: precoz

• French: précoce
• German: frühreif, altklug
• Russian: не по годам ра́звитый
• Spanish: precoz