'Pubescent' definitions:
Definition of 'pubescent'
From: WordNet
adjective
(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"
adjective
Covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds" [syn: downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous]
Definition of 'Pubescent'
From: GCIDE
- Pubescent \Pu*bes"cent\ (p[-u]"b[e^]s"sent), a. [L. pubescens, -entis, p. pr. of pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. pubescent.]
- 1. Arrived recently at puberty. [1913 Webster]
- That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pubescent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adolescent,
- attenuate,
- attenuated,
- bristly,
- bushy,
- cirrose,
- dainty,
- delicate,
- downy,
- feathery,
- filmy,
- fine,
- fine-drawn,
- fine-grained,
- finespun,
- fleecy,
- flocculent,
- flossy,
- fluffy,
- furry,
- fuzzy,
- gauzy,
- gossamer,
- gossamery,
- hairy,
- hirsute,
- hispid,
- lanate,
- matted,
- maturescent,
- nubile,
- pilose,
- refined,
- satin,
- satiny,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- silky,
- smooth,
- thin-spun,
- unshorn,
- velutinous,
- velvety,
- wiredrawn,
- woolly