coqu-, cocu-, coc-
(Latin: to cook, to prepare food, to ripen, to digest, to turn over in the mind)
biscuit
cook
cooker
cookery
cuisine
kitchen
kitchenette
precocial
Born or hatched in a condition requiring relatively little parental care, as by having hair or feathers, open eyes, and the ability to move around.
Water birds, reptiles, and herd animals usually have precocial young.
precocious
1. Developed more than is usual at a certain age.
2. Before cooking or before being cooked.
3. Premature; development of mind and/or body before one's age.
4. Relating to or having flowers that blossom before the leaves emerge.
Some species of magnolias are precocious.
precociously
precociousness
precocious pseudopuberty
The appearance of some secondary sex characters before the normal age of puberty but without maturation of the gonads.
precocity
Unusually early development of mental or physical traits before the normal process.
precook
1. To cook something partially or completely, for final preparation at a later time.
2. To cook beforehand so the actual preparation won't take so long; such as, cooking rice in advance.
true precocious puberty
Hyperovarianism or sexual precocity in young girls due to premature maturation of the hypotholomic-pituitary axis and development of ovaries accompanied by the secretion of ovarian hormones.
Closely related to the
coct- family of words.
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