pubescence
pubescence is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adolescence
- adolescent
- adult
- adultness
- age
- assume
- attain
- chicken
- come
- cut
- discretion
- estate
- flower
- full
- grown
- have
- life
- majority
- man
- manhood
- manly
- marriageable
- matronly
- mature
- maturity
- meridian
- middle-aged
- mild
- nubile
- out
- prime
- pubescent
- ripe
- sown
- spring
- teens
- the
- toga
- virile
- virility
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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