0 (especially of children) showing mental development or achievement much earlier than usual -- （尤指儿童）智力超常的，早熟的
One purpose of the present investigation, therefore, was to examine phonological patterns of several groups of children representing a range from average to precocious lexical development.
Though in this study ' earlier ' and ' later ' were crudely defined, the patterns in the data do suggest that lexically precocious children may gain early entrance into grammar.
A possible explanation is that the molgulid ascidians may have undergone precocious changes in egg organisation as a preadaptation to direct development.
The threshold for microvascular disease is clinically relevant, as the precocious development of microangiopathy is the most remarkable feature of diabetes.
Precocious readers, in turn, are distinguished from their nonreading peers by their superior phoneme and onset - rime awareness.
Meiosis-activating sterol protects oocytes from precocious chromosome segregation.
Precocious loss of cortical granules during mouse oocytes meiotic maturation and correlation with an egg-induced modification of the zona pellucida.
Edwards (1986) has shown that one solution that prevents precocious germination during prechilling is to partially redry seeds during pretreatment.
