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Pubescent

adjective
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.
2.
Covered with fine soft hairs or down.  Synonyms: downy, puberulent, sericeous.





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... 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


Words linked to "Pubescent" :   hairy, haired, biological science, biology, hirsute, immature, pubescence


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