altricial
📖 Definitions
adjective
Born in an undeveloped and helpless condition and requiring parental care and feeding for some time.
💬 Usage Examples
“But the girls ... are probably more developed than the relatively altricial boys they’re competing against. If anything, these girls might have an advantage. And many young women, even with the species-wide size disparity, have proven themselves on varsity-level teams, especially in lightweight wrestling brackets.” Gooding Needs to Let the Girls Play; McClatchy-Tribune Business News (Washington, DC); Sep 12, 2013. “Around Maria Izabelle he felt more like a newly hatched altricial bird -- blind and helpless.” George R.
Hopkins; Collateral Consequences; Xlibris; 2009.