
1) French word used in English 2) Immature 3) Starting to mature
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1) Hairy 2) Hirsute 3) Puberulent 4) Sericeous 5) Teenage 6) Teenager
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downy; covered with short, soft, erect hairs.
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covered with short, soft hairs
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• (a.) Arrived at puberty. • (a.) Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.
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Covered with a soft down.
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Covered with short sort hair.
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covered with short, soft hairs
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Covered with short, soft hair
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Covered with short, fine, soft hairs.
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Covered with down or soft, short hairs.
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<paediatrics> Relating to someone who has just entered puberty. ... (15 Dec 1997) ...
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(pu-bes´әnt) arriving at the age of puberty. covered with down or lanugo.
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covered with short, soft hairs
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hairy.
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Covered with fine, short hairs.. In plants may affect wetting of foliage and retention of spray.
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Pu·bes'cent adjective [ Latin
pubescens ,
-entis , present participle of
pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, from
pubes pubes: confer French
pubescent .]
1. Arrived at puberty. « That . . . the men (are)
pubescent at the age of...
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Covered with short, soft hairs; downy.
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Covered with short sort hair.
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adjective (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`
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covered with short, soft hair
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covered with hairs.
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covered with short soft hairs
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On certain plants a covering with a layer of fine short hairs or down.
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arriving or arrived at puberty. · covered with down or fine short hair.
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