pu·bes·cent

(pyo͞o-bĕs′ənt)

adj.

1. Reaching or having recently reached puberty.

2. Covered with short hairs or soft down.

[Latin pūbēscēns, pūbēscent-, present participle of pūbēscere, to reach puberty, from pūbēs, adult.]

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pubescent

(pjuːˈbɛsənt)

adj

1. (Physiology) arriving or having arrived at puberty

2. (Biology) (of certain plants and animals or their parts) covered with a layer of fine short hairs or down

[C17: from Latin pūbēscere to reach manhood, from pūber adult]

puˈbescence n

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pu•bes•cent

(pyuˈbɛs ənt)

adj.

1. arriving or arrived at puberty.

2. Bot., Zool. covered with down or fine short hairs.

[1640–50; < Latin pūbēscent- (s. of pūbēscēns), present participle of pūbēscere to attain puberty, become hairy or downy. See pubes¹, -escent]

pu•bes′cence, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	pubescent - (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" immature - not yet mature
	2.	pubescent - covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds" puberulent, sericeous, downy biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms haired, hairy, hirsute - having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"

Translations

pubescent

[pjuːˈbesənt]

A. ADJ → pubescente

B. N → pubescente mf

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pubescent

[pjuːˈbɛs^ənt] (formal) adj → pubère

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pubescent

adj → pubertierend

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pubescent

[pjuːˈbɛsənt] adj (girl, boy) → pubere, nell'età puberale; (age) → puberale

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pubescent

adj pubescente

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- Leaves and corymb initially pubescent; stamens 25-30 and styles 3-5.......................................1.

FOUR NEW RECORDS OF THE GENUS PYRUS (ROSACEAE) FROM PAKISTAN

To say that it's a generational thing is completely false - I have 30-something friends attending concerts and screaming their lungs out as if they were back to their pubescent girlhood days.

What's the deal with this K-pop life?

Men start to develop facial hair-which is regulated by testosterone-during their pubescent stage, and it doesn't fully mature until they reach their early twenties.

No beard at twenty

In contrast, it was established that Tanner stage modifies [.sup.13]C-GBT when co-evaluated with HOMA ([beta]=-2.1; p=0.017), fasting plasma insulin ([beta]=-1.9; p=0.034), and 2-h OGTT insulin ([beta]=-2.1; p=0.017), therefore, in subsequent analyses, the sample was stratified into pubescent (Tanner stages 2 and 3) and post-pubescent (Tanner stages 4 and 5) individuals.

The [.sup.13]C-Glucose Breath Test for Insulin Resistance Assessment in Adolescents: Comparison with Fasting and Post-Glucose Stimulus Surrogate Markers of Insulin Resistance

Tendrils trifid; connective elongated, pubescent ...

The family Bignoniaceae in the Environmental Protection Area Serra Branca, Raso da Catarina, Jeremoabo, Bahia, Brazil/A familia Bignoniaceae na APA Serra Branca, Raso da Catarina, Jeremoabo, Bahia, Brasil

Median basal region of mentum pubescent and protruding (Fig.

Passalus coarctatus Percheron, 1835 (Coleoptera: Passalidae): redescription and new distributional records

Adolescents in Stage 1 were considered pre-pubescent; pubescent in Stages 2, 3 and 4; post-pubescent adolescents in Stage 5.

Females and post-pubescent adolescents: groups with high exposure to the development of body image dissatisfaction in Sao Bonifacio, Santa Catarina State, Brazil/Sexo feminino e adolescentes pos-puberes: grupos de maior exposicao ao desenvolvimento da insatisfacao corporal em Sao Bonifacio, no Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil

Prosecutor Peter Wright had claimed Hall, 84, was "an accomplished sexual predator" with "a propensity for pubescent and pre-pubescent girls".

Pervert Hall is cleared of raping two girls; PREDATOR HOST FACES MORE TIME IN JAIL But jury finds jailed It's a Knockout star guilty of indecently assaulting one of the teenagers when she was under 16

It is challenging, however, with Lillian's ghost haunting Hannah as she goes about her days, and a serial killer on the loose preying on the city's pubescent girls and leaving handcrafted Valentines near their dead bodies.

Yovanoff, Brenna. Paper Valentine

Inflorescence up to 38 cm long; peduncle terete, made up of 9-13 internodes, bronzy- or greenish-brown, glabrous below, sparsely glandular pubescent above, 11-50 cm long, 2-4 mm in diameter, covered by papery sheaths, these tubular-infundibuliform with ovate, acuminate free apical portions, translucent whitish with brown veins, progressively shorter towards the apex, up to 70 mm long and 13 mm wide; raceme subsecund, 2-10 cm long, with 3-13 flowers, most or all of them open at the same time; rachis sparsely and shortly glandular-pubescent.

A new species of Deiregyne (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae) from Mexico