Crossword clues for pubescence
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.
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 pubes "adult, full-grown" (see puberty).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being in or reaching puberty. 2 (context anatomy English) A covering of fine, soft hairs.
WordNet
n. the time of life when sex glands become functional [syn: puberty]
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 Lost, Pubescence 3, and Pubescence 4. It was released on 20 July 2011. The film is regarded as China's American Pie.
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.