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- DictionaryPu·bes·cent/pyo͞oˈbes(ə)nt/
adjective
- 1. relating to or denoting a person at or approaching the age of puberty: "a gang of pubescent boys"
- 2. covered with short soft hair; downy.
noun
- 1. a person at or approaching the age of puberty: "the audience was largely made up of squealing pubescents"
The meaning of PUBESCENT is arriving at or having reached puberty. How to use pubescent in a sentence.
PUBESCENT definition: 1. A pubescent child is at the stage in life when they are developing from a child into an adult…. Learn more.
Pubescent, when the antenn are clothed with uniform short hairs. Pubescent: downy: clothed with soft, short, fine, closely set hair. Pubescent definition: arriving or arrived at puberty.. See examples of PUBESCENT used in a sentence.
A pubescent girl or boy is a young person who's just reached the age of puberty, or sexual maturity. Use the adjective pubescent to describe a person who's at the end of childhood growth and is beginning to be fully adult, including being nearly old enough physically to reproduce, or have babies.
adj. 1. (Physiology) arriving or having arrived at puberty. 2. (Biology) (of certain plants and animals or their parts) covered with a layer of fine short hairs or down. [C17: from Latin pūbēscere to reach manhood, from pūber adult] puˈbescence n.
Definition of pubescent adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A pubescent girl or boy has reached the stage in their life when their body is becoming physically like an adult's.
