Pubescent Definition

pyo͝o-bĕsənt
adjective
Reaching or having reached the state of puberty.
Webster's New World
Of, having to do with, or characteristic of puberty.
Webster's New World
Covered with a soft down, as many plants and insects.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Pubescent

  • Latin pūbēscēns pūbēscent- present participle of pūbēscere to reach puberty from pūbēs adult

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin pubescens (“to become hairy, downy, or an adult")

    From Wiktionary

Pubescent Sentence Examples

  • Boys in their pubescent years will begin to have very active sexual urges that should be addressed in a comfortable and safe environment.

  • They are bright, iridescent, golden-green or bluish-coloured beetles (see Coleoptera), with the breast finely punctured and pubescent, head and thorax with a longitudinal channel, and elytra with two slightly elevated lines.

  • These results, however, must be carefully interpreted because normal laboratory values for IGF-1 vary when the patient is pregnant, is pubescent, is elderly, or is severely malnourished.

  • The young shoots of P. domestica are glabrous, and the fruit oblong; in P. insititia the young shoots are pubescent, and the fruit more or less globose.

  • Ugly, pubescent, often lower class and furnished with a regional accent the dummy is a crude technical caricature of the human body.

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Words Starting With

PPUPUB

Words Ending With

TNTENT

Unscrambles

pubescent

Words Starting With P and Ending With T

Starts With P & Ends With TStarts With PU & Ends With TStarts With P & Ends With NT

Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With P9 Letter Words Ending With T