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Puberulent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Covered with minute hairs or very fine down; finely pubescent.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. covered in soft, downy hairs

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Very minutely downy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Finely and softly pubescent; downy.

In botany, covered with fine, short down; minutely pubescent.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. covered with fine soft hairs or down

Word Usage

"= -- On trunks of old trees thick, shallow-channeled, broad-ridged; on stems of young trees and upon branches smooth, greenish; season's shoots at first rusty-scurfy or puberulent, in late autumn becoming smooth and light russet brown."

Equivalent

hairy haired hirsute

Cross Reference

pubescent