9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
adjective born after a gestation period of less than the normal time
adjective too soon or too hasty
adjective uncommonly early or before the expected time
originFrom Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- + mature. First use appears c. 1440 in a translation of Palladius's De Re Rustica.
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