Usually means: Mature and mobile at birth.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. precocial: Merriam-Webster
  2. precocial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. precocial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. precocial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. precocial: Vocabulary.com
  6. precocial: Wordnik
  7. precocial: Wiktionary
  8. precocial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. precocial: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. precocial: Dictionary.com
  11. Precocial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. precocial: Rhymezone
  13. precocial: FreeDictionary.org
  14. precocial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. precocial: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precocial: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dinosaurs (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. precocial: Natural History Terms

(Note: See precocials as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (precocial)

adjective:  (zoology, of birds) Hatched from the egg already covered in down and with eyes open; capable of leaving the nest within a few days.

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