pubescent (redirected from pubescents)

pu·bes·cent  (py-bsnt)

adj.

1. Reaching or having reached puberty.

2. Covered with short hairs or soft down.

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[Latin pbscns, pbscent-, present participle of pbscere, to reach puberty, from pbs, adult.]

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pubescent

Adjective

1. arriving or arrived at puberty

2. covered with down, as some plants and animals [Latin pubescere to reach manhood]

pubescence n

Thesaurus

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"