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Pubescent

adjective
1.
(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.
2.
Covered with fine soft hairs or down.  Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous.






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"Pubescent" Quotes from Famous Books



... 374; adult, no chicken. V. come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis[Lat]; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats. Adj. 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; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... delicious perfume of its brightly-coloured flowers render this shrub one of the choicest subjects for the shrubbery or edges of the woodland path. It is of easy though compact growth, reaching in favourable situations a height of 12 feet, and with ovate leaves that are slightly pubescent. Growing best in good fairly moist loam, where partial shade is afforded, the sides of woodland drives and paths will suit this Allspice well; but it wants plenty of room for branch-development. There are several nursery forms of this ...
— Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster



Words linked to "Pubescent" :   haired, hirsute, biology, hairy, immature, biological science, pubescence



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