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Meanings of pubescent in English

Covered with fine soft hairs or down.

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Pubescent.

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Usage of pubescent in English
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Ah, leave me alone in my pubescent park, in my mossy garden.
The Annotated Lolita
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It was surreal to watch that whole pubescent obsession from the inside.
Reuters
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For pubescent girls, showing any part of your naked body is anathema.
The Guardian
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Divergence is most marked and sudden in the pubescent period-inthe early teens.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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It was Phil, though, that made those pubescent dreams come true.
The Guardian
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Military heroes and inventors play leading rôles in the choices of pubescent boys.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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No wonder much of Tampax's communication is geared towards pubescent first-timers.
The Guardian
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But much scarier people than a skinny pubescent Belter had tried intimidating him.
Nemesis Game
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And don't ever use the word pubescent again, it's weird.
The Irish Times
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Rapid and marked accentuation of unidexterity is a pubescent change.
Civics and Health
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And 150 million girls are sexually assaulted each year, half of whom are barely pubescent.
The Guardian
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The leaves are ovate-oblong, and pubescent on the undersides.
Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
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Her small, freckled breasts appeared barely more than pubescent.
White corridor
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We may take children, with the exception of pubescent girls, to be good, reliable witnesses.
Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Stu...
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Their fan base is pubescent girls, who scream and weep before the concert even starts.
The new yorker
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By Monday I'd moved on to burial sixteen, a pubescent girl with second molars in eruption.
Grave Secrets
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