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pubescent

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1. pubescent - Noun

2. pubescent - Adjective

3. pubescent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Arrived at puberty.

Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys. Caitlin Flanagan

downy milkweed seeds Source: Internet

the budding breasts of a pubescent girl and the downy chin of pubescent boy Source: Internet

Foliage The shoots are brown to gray-brown, smooth, though not as smooth as fir shoots, and finely pubescent with scattered short hairs. Source: Internet

It has broad, generally pubescent, powdery, smooth (rarely) to lobed leaves normally arranged alternately. Source: Internet

Branchlets are at first bright green and pubescent; during their first winter they become light brown tinged with orange, and later they become a paler orange brown. Source: Internet

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