- unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
- prematurely developed, as the mind, faculties, etc.
- of or relating to premature development.
- Botany.
- flowering, fruiting, or ripening early, as plants or fruit.
- bearing blossoms before leaves, as plants.
- appearing before leaves, as flowers.
- ahead in development, such as the mental development of a child
- (of plants, fruit, etc) flowering or ripening early
