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

Stem 3–6° high, with numerous slender branches above; leaves thin, ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, somewhat serrate, petioled, rough above, pale and puberulent beneath; peduncles slender, rough; scales ovate and ovate-lanceolate, ciliate.

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 Gray, Asa

Leaves glabrous beneath, or very minutely puberulent — 9. 8a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

Glaucous, sometimes slightly puberulent, often low and cespitose, the rigid branches angled; leaves narrow, erect, usually with stipular glands; flowers large; sepals lanceolate, glandular-serrulate; styles united; capsule ovoid, 5-valved.—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 Gray, Asa

Soft-villous and puberulent, 2–5° high; leaves ovate-lanceolate, repand-denticulate, soft-pubescent; spikes dense; fruit oblong-clavate, narrowed to both ends, 4-nerved, obtusely angled above, 3–4´´ long.—Mo. to La. and westward.

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 Gray, Asa

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 Dame, Lorin Low