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praecocial

praecocial is the archaic form of precocial.

Meaning of precocial

Adjective

precocial (not comparable)

  1. Hatched from the egg already covered in down and with eyes open; capable of leaving the nest within a few days.
    • Being precocial, shorebird chicks leave the nest soon after hatching to forage by themselves, but, as they are not yet homeothermic, they lose body heat while foraging and must be rewarmed by their parents at regular intervals.2012, Karen L Krijgsveld, Behavioural and physiological adaptations of precocial chicks to arctic environments

Forms of praecocial

alternative formpræcocial

Questions about praecocial

What is praecocial the archaic form of?
Praecocial is the archaic form of precocial.

Words near praecocial in the dictionary

  1. praecaval
  2. praecipe
  3. praecipes
  4. praecipuum
  5. praecoces
  6. praecocial
  7. praecognita
  8. praecoma
  9. praeconise
  10. praeconised
  11. praeconises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: praecocial (page history and authors); precocial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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