| 单词 | pubescent |
| 释义 | pubescent (once / 11376 pages) 1adj 2adj A pubescent girl or boy is a young person who's just reached the age of puberty, or sexual maturity. Use the adjective pubescent to describe a person who's at the end of childhood growth and is beginning to be fully adult, including being nearly old enough physically to reproduce, or have babies. Pubescent girls and boys are at an in-between stage in their lives, no longer little kids, but not yet grownups. The root of pubescence is the Latin word pubescere, "grow up, ripen, or come to maturity." WORD FAMILYpubescent: prepubescent, pubescence USAGE EXAMPLESHis pent-up, palsied mien suggests sexual fear and repression, a powerful image to drop on an audience of pubescent boys. Slate(Oct 28, 2016) At one moment the memory inflamed his mind and body with pubescent fire, and the next moment nauseated him with revulsion and loathing. John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952) For pubescent girls, showing any part of your naked body is anathema. The Guardian(Jun 12, 2016) 1 adj (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature 2the budding breasts of a pubescent girl and the downy chin of pubescent boy Syn immature not yet mature adj covered with fine soft hairs or down Syn downy, puberulent, sericeous haired, hairy, hirsute having or covered with hair |
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