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}, {pubescent}, {puberulent}, {sericeous}]
    

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.
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            That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of
            twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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   2. Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain
      insects, and the leaves of some plants.
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45 Moby Thesaurus words for "pubescent":
      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