Pubescence Definition

pyo͝o-bĕsəns
noun
The quality or state of being pubescent.
Webster's New World
The attainment or onset of puberty.
American Heritage Medicine
The soft down that covers the surface of many plants and insects.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Pubescence

Noun

Singular:
pubescence
Plural:
pubescences

Pubescence Sentence Examples

  • Bassett, 3 is the petiole, and its terminal tuft of woolly hairs the enormously developed pubescence of the young oak-leaf.

  • Leaves are dark green and deeply 3-lobed with white pubescence on the underneath side.

  • Meconopsis Simplicifolia - s a tuft of lance-shaped leaves, 3 to 5 inches long, slightly toothed, and covered with a short, dense, brownish pubescence.

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Words Starting With

PPUPUB

Words Ending With

ECENCE

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pubescence

Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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