Pubescent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Reaching or having reached puberty.
  • adj. Covered with short hairs or soft down.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Arriving, or arrived at, puberty.
  • adj. Covered with down or fine hairs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Arrived at puberty.
  • adj. Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Arriving at puberty.
  • Covered with pubescence, or fine short hair; downy.
  • In botany, covered or sprinkled with down or hairs: a general term, including villous, hirsute, strigose, lanate, etc., but when used alone in specific description denoting a soft or downy and short pubescence.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. covered with fine soft hairs or down
  • adj. (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
  • Equivalent
    hairy    haired    hirsute    immature   
    Cross Reference
    puberulent   
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