puberulent

American  

[pyoo-ber-yuh-luhnt, -ber-uh-] / pyuˈbɛr yə lənt, -ˈbɛr ə- /

Also puberulous

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. minutely pubescent.

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puberulent British  

/ pjʊˈbɛrjʊlənt /

adjective

1. biology covered with very fine down; finely pubescent

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Etymology

Origin of puberulent

1860–65; < Latin pūber- ( puberty ) + -ulent

Example Sentences

Much like the last, but the rather larger fronds puberulent beneath with minute jointed hairs and stalked glands; indusium deeply cleft into narrow segments ending in jointed hairs.—Rocky places, Minn., southward and westward.

From Project Gutenberg

Bark.—On trunks of old trees thick, shallow-channeled, broad-ridged; on stems of young trees and upon branches smooth, greenish; season's shoots at first rusty-scurfy or puberulent, in late autumn becoming smooth and light russet brown.

From Project Gutenberg

Finely puberulent; leaves mostly ovate and acutish with a cordate base, often small; flowers small and mostly cleistogamous.—Sandy or stony shores and islands of Lakes Huron and Superior.

From Project Gutenberg

Leaves mostly pubescent or puberulent; hoods obtuse, entire, twice or thrice the length of the anthers.

From Project Gutenberg

Stouter and more rigid, leaves of radical shoots thicker, linear, hoary, the cauline puberulent or glabrous, calyx canescent.

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