"hyperadult" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1966, George F. McLean, Christian Philosophy in the College and Seminary, page 76:",
          "text": "As matters now stand, \"programs\" too often result in the formation of individuals whose intelligence may be hyperadult, but whose affective and moral sensibility is childish.",
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          "ref": "1992, Martin Schecter, Two Halves of New Haven, page 157:",
          "text": "It was slow enough now that I could take a good look at her — I couldn't decide her age, but there seemed to be a youthfulness to her that belied her hyperadult authority.",
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          "ref": "2009, Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Her students - children living in a hyperadult world where playground disputes were settled with 9 mms - eventually drove her out of teaching.",
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          "ref": "2018, Lionel Shriver, The Standing Chandelier:",
          "text": "I mean, most people get off on stuff that goes back to puberty or even earlier, and 'I'm so aroused' sounds so hyperadult.",
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        "Having excessively or inappropriately adult characteristics."
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          "ref": "1993, Charles Devillers, Jean Chaline, Evolution: An Evolving Theory, page 124:",
          "text": "When sexual maturity is delayed development of the organism may continue over a longer time span. this extension of the growth phase facilitates the formation of a “hyperadult” morphology and a large size, a situation referred to as hypermorphosis.",
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          "ref": "1999, Barry Bogin, R. A. Foley, C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Patterns of Human Growth, →ISBN, page 164:",
          "text": "Vrba continues by stating that this '. . . can result in a major reorganization - or \"shuffling\" of body proportions such that some characters become larger and others smaller, some hyperadult and others more juvenilized' (1996, p. 1 ).",
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          "ref": "2003, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology - Volume 23, Issues 3-4, page 552:",
          "text": "This suggests a heterochronic event, such as a hypermorphosis (i.e., hyperadult size and shape, McNamara, 1986).",
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        "(biology) Exhibiting hypermorphosis; Having features that exaggerate adult morphology."
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          "ref": "1992, Martin Schecter, Two Halves of New Haven, page 157:",
          "text": "It was slow enough now that I could take a good look at her — I couldn't decide her age, but there seemed to be a youthfulness to her that belied her hyperadult authority.",
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          "text": "Her students - children living in a hyperadult world where playground disputes were settled with 9 mms - eventually drove her out of teaching.",
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        },
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          "text": "I mean, most people get off on stuff that goes back to puberty or even earlier, and 'I'm so aroused' sounds so hyperadult.",
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        }
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          "text": "Vrba continues by stating that this '. . . can result in a major reorganization - or \"shuffling\" of body proportions such that some characters become larger and others smaller, some hyperadult and others more juvenilized' (1996, p. 1 ).",
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