puberulent

American  

[pyoo-ber-yuh-luhnt, -ber-uh-] / pjuˈbɛr jə 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- ( see puberty) + -ulent

Example Sentences

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puberulent

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

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Perennial, branching, puberulent or glabrate, low; leaves narrow, pinnately or bipinnately parted, the lobes and teeth bristle-tipped; heads small, the appressed scales bristle-tipped; achenes pubescent.—Minn. to Kan., and southward.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

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 Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame

Low, decumbent, somewhat woody, diffusely branched, puberulent; branches slender, flexuous; leaves narrow; flowers few, small; capsules pubescent, about equalling the pedicel.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Sterile catkins mostly in threes, 3-4 inches long: fertile catkins 1-1½ inches long, cylindrical, slender-peduncled, erect or spreading; bracts puberulent.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame