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pubescent

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective pubescent has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

pubescenta. [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, woolly

ROGET 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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