pubescent
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Pubescent boys will be boys — which evidently means self-control is off the table.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2019
Pubescent boys are victims, as well as senile men.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pubescent; stem prostrate, rooting at base; leaves short-petioled, obovate-elliptical or wedge-oblong, obtuse, serrate; racemes densely many-flowered; pedicels shorter than the calyx; capsule obovate-triangular, broadly notched.—Dry hills and open woods, N. Eng. to Mich., 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
Pubescent, hairy or downy, especially with fine and soft hairs or pubescence.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Stem and leaves smooth and glabrous 29–32 Pubescent or scabrous 33–36 Leaves not 3-ribbed, or only obscurely triple-nerved.
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
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