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Pubescent

Pubescent Meaning & Definition
Pubescent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pubescent?

[adj] (biology) covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"
[adj] (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature; "the budding breasts of a pubescent girl and the downy chin of pubescent boy"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pubescent: downy | hairy | hirsute | immature | puberulent | sericeous

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Pubescent In Webster's Dictionary

\Pu*bes"cent\, a. [L. pubescens, -entis, p. pr. of pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. pubescent.] 1. Arrived at puberty. That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. --Sir T. Browne. 2. Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.

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