Crossword clues for pubes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pubes \Pu"bes\, n. [L., the hair which appears on the body at puberty, from pubes adult.]
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(Anat.)
The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty.
Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.
(Bot.) The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "pubic hair," from Latin pubes "pubescent, arrived at the age of puberty, of ripe years, grown up," also, as a noun, "a sign of puberty" (such as pubic hair), also "young men of the age of puberty" (see puberty). In 19c. also "pubic bone," and earlier "part of either hip bone that forms the front of the pelvis," from Latin os pubis, from pubes "genital area." In modern slang, monosyllable, a familiar shortening of pubic hairs (see pubic).
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs [syn: pubic region, loins]
n. one of the three sections of the hipbone; together the two pubic bones form the front of the pelvis [syn: pubic bone, os pubis]
[also: pubes (pl)]
See pubis
Usage examples of "pubes".
The woman, aged twenty-two, was pale, diminutive in size, and showed an enormous abdomen, which measured 50 inches in circumference at the umbilicus and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the pubes.
Kalschmidt of Jena possessed the pubes of a woman dead of plica, the hair of which was of such length that it must have easily gone around the body.
He sought aid at the London Hospital, but the priapism was persistent, and when he left, on May 10th, the penis formed an acute angle with the pubes, and he again had free intercourse with the same female.
He retained his shock of black hair, along with hair at chest, pubes and legs.
I was placing the pubes and ribs in a solution of hot water and Spic and Span when Larabee entered, followed by Sheila Jansen.
He saw a woman in her mid thirties, plump, amply breasted, bellied and thighed, well tufted in pubes and armpits, plain of face save for sparkling brown eyes, dark hair curling down behind her shoulders.
The patient, it appears, had a large exostosis on the body of the pubes which, during parturition, was forced through the walls of the uterus and bladder, resulting in death.
There was a third leg attached to a continuation of the processus coceygeus of the sacrum, and in addition to well developed mammae regularly situated, there were two rudimentary ones close together above the pubes.
Chambers mentions a woman of twenty-seven who suffered from bloody sweat after the manner of the stigmatists, and Petrone mentions a young man of healthy antecedents, the sweat from whose axillae and pubes was red and very pungent.
The girl, body gleaming wetly, beads of foam upon head, pubes and underarms, rose lissomely from the surf and stood before him.
The man stood before them, a hulking presence, the dead woman now over his shoulder, hairy dark pubes peeping beneath marble buttocks.
As his flaccid organ approached her pubes, they stretched upward and parted, revealing the crimson interior, then closed about him.
But it was familiar Patricia who finally banged through the double doors, yawning, rubbing her eyes, quite out of uniform in a drab grey robe trailing behind so that dark pubes were exposed.
My hands darted to conceal my pubes, but I let them relax when the realisation dawned that he was equally naked.
I put my hands over my pubes, realised that all four of the newcomers were naked as I, and simply relaxed.