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The time of life when sex glands become functional
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pubescence
Word definitions for pubescence in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the time of life when sex glands become functional [syn: puberty ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pubescence is a 2011 Chinese teen sex comedy film directed and written by Guan Xiaojie , starring Zhao Yihuan and Wang Yi. It is the first film in the Pubescence theatrical series. The film was a box-office hit and spawned three direct sequels: Paradise ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., Middle French pubescence , from Medieval Latin pubescentia , noun of state from Latin pubescentem (nominative pubescens ), present participle of pubescere "grow up; ripen, come to maturity; reach the age of puberty, arrive at puberty," from ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pubescence \Pu*bes"cence\, n. [Cf. F. pubescence.] The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty. --Sir T. Browne. A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being in or reaching puberty. 2 (context anatomy English) A covering of fine, soft hairs.
Usage examples of pubescence.
Halfway snickered on bourbon and beer, dressed in a House nightie with a wig to make me look like a gomer, I lay on the bottom bunk while the Runt babbled about pubescence and hooked me up to a cardiac monitor.
No hereafter is acceptable if it does not produce her as she was then, in that Colorado resort between Snow and Elphinstone, with everything right: the white wide little-boy shorts, the slender waist, the apricot midriff, the white breast-kerchief whose ribbons went up and encircled her neck to end behind in a dangling knot leaving bare her gaspingly young and adorable apricot shoulder blades with that pubescence and those lovely gentle bones, and the smooth, downward-tapering back.
And now we are supposed to believe that she has proven that embryos cannot proceed to live birth, or even grow to pubescence, without a full complement of old viruses in their genes.