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Pubescent   Listen
adjective
Pubescent  adj.  
1.
Arrived recently at puberty. "That... the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth."
2.
Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.





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"Pubescent" Quotes from Famous Books



... investigation can demonstrate that behind this tenderness, such as honoring and esteeming, there is concealed the old sexual strivings of the infantile partial impulses which have now become useless. The object selection of the pubescent period must renounce the infantile objects and begin anew as a sensuous stream. The fact that the two streams do not meet often enough has as a result that one of the ideals of the sexual life, namely, the union of all desires in one object, can ...
— Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex • Sigmund Freud
... Siebenbuergens (Hermannstadt, 1880), p. 14; J. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie,*[4] iii. 468; G. Lammert, Volksmedizin und medizinischer Aberglaube aus Bayern (Wuerzburg, 1869), p. 147. Among the Western Denes it is believed that one or two transverse lines tattooed on the arms or legs of a young man by a pubescent girl are a specific against premature weakness of these limbs. See A.G. Morice, "Notes, Archaeological, Industrial, and Sociological, on the Western Denes," Transactions of the Canadian Institute, iv. (1892-93) p. 182. The Thompson Indians of British Columbia thought that the ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... reddish brown to yellowish brown, or gray, turning more or less gray with age; pubescent the ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various


Words linked to "Pubescent" :   immature, biology, pubescence, haired, hirsute, puberulent, biological science


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