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pubescent
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective pubescent has 2 senses
- pubescent(s = adj.all) Array - (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" Derived form noun pubescence1
- pubescent(s = adj.all) downy, puberulent, sericeous - covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"
CIDE DICTIONARY
pubescent, a. [L. pubescens, -entis, p. pr. of pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. pubescent.].
- Arrived at puberty. [1913 Webster]"That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth." [1913 Webster]
- Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
pubescent
adolescent, attenuate, attenuated, bristly, bushy, cirrose, dainty, delicate, downy, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, maturescent, nubile, pilose, refined, satin, satiny, shagged, shaggy, silky, smooth, thin-spun, unshorn, velutinous, velvety, wiredrawn, woollyROGET THESAURUS
pubescent
Adolescence
N adolescence, pubescence, majority, adultism, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age, flower of age, prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life, man, woman, adult, no chicken, adolescent, pubescent, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult, womanly, matronly, marriageable, nubile, Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose.
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