Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being pubescent.
- noun The attainment or onset of puberty.
- noun A covering of soft down or short hairs, as on certain plants and insects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The coming of puberty, or attaining to puberty; the state of being pubescent; puberty.
- noun Hairiness; especially, the fine soft hairs of various insects, etc.; lanugo.
- noun In botany: The condition or character of being pubescent.
- noun The down or hair which grows on many plant-surfaces. See
pubescent .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.
- noun A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being in or reaching
puberty . - noun anatomy A covering of fine, soft
hairs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the time of life when sex glands become functional
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Examples
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Pre-pubescence is a tough stage for you obviously.
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Thorax thinly covered with long yellow pubescence, which is most dense at the sides of the metathorax; the tibiæ, tarsi, and posterior femora ferruginous; the claw-joint of the tarsi black; the tibiæ and tarsi with black spines; the wings fulvo-hyaline, their apex with a narrow fuscous border, the nervures ferruginous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The presence of intermediate characters such as pubescence and flower size, however, make it hard to differentiate the two subspecies.
Chapter 7 1999
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Dr. Brady said that Simon's sterility wasn't simply a matter of low sperm count or low motility, that he had been sterile probably since pubescence, meaning since his first e) aculation.
the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995
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But when the science begins to accumulate that chemicals may also be damaging our children's health -- may be leading to everything from early onset pubescence to reproductive and developmental abnormalities -- we start to pay closer attention.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Pediatricians: Toxics Endanger Kids Health Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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He would move from that pre-pubescence to an incredibly awkward teen period — from cherub, to a gangly whippet of a young man.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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But when the science begins to accumulate that chemicals may also be damaging our children's health -- may be leading to everything from early onset pubescence to reproductive and developmental abnormalities -- we start to pay closer attention.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Pediatricians: Toxics Endanger Kids Health Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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He would move from that pre-pubescence to an incredibly awkward teen period — from cherub, to a gangly whippet of a young man.
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But when the science begins to accumulate that chemicals may also be damaging our children's health -- may be leading to everything from early onset pubescence to reproductive and developmental abnormalities -- we start to pay closer attention.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Pediatricians: Toxics Endanger Kids Health Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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But when the science begins to accumulate that chemicals may also be damaging our children's health -- may be leading to everything from early onset pubescence to reproductive and developmental abnormalities -- we start to pay closer attention.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Pediatricians: Toxics Endanger Kids Health Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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