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Pubescent   Listen
adjective
Pubescent  adj.  
1.
Arrived recently at puberty. "That... the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth."
2.
Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.





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"Pubescent" Quotes from Famous Books



... spring of life. man &c. 373; woman &c. 374; adult, no chicken. V. come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis[Lat]; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats. Adj. adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


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