pre-adult

Every scene with the terrifically naturalistic child actors rings with some truth about pre-adult life.

In their final pre-adult stage, the nymphs take on a red coloration.

When the princess enters, she comes like a sunburst — flooding the stage with beauty, charm and pre-adult energy.

The animal was a pre-adult male and about one metre long, South China Morning Post reports.

The study’s authors note that the Census’s numbers may present an artificially rosy picture of childhood poverty because a larger portion of children experience poverty at some point over their pre-adult years than are poor in any single given year.