pubescent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pubescent	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pubescent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pubescent adj (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" covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds" Synonym(s): downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pubescent \Pubes"cent\, a. [L. pubescens, -entis, p. pr. of pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. pubescent.] 1. Arrived at puberty. That . . . the men (are) pubescent* at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. --Sir T. Browne. 2. Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.