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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: pubescent (0.01082 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to pubescent.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pubescent
pubescent
adj 1: (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”
2: covered with fine soft hairs or down;
“downy milkweed seeds”
[syn:
downy,
puberulent,
sericeous]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pubescent
Pubescent
\Pu*bes"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.
[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]
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