Thesaurus / pubescent
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Pubescent, when the antenn are clothed with uniform short hairs.
NEW ZEALAND MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIESG. V. HUDSONPubescent: downy: clothed with soft, short, fine, closely set hair.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGYJOHN. B. SMITHWORDS RELATED TO PUBESCENT
- adolescent
- babyish
- beardless
- blooming
- boyish
- budding
- callow
- childlike
- developing
- formative
- fresh
- girlish
- green
- growing
- immature
- inexperienced
- infant
- infantile
- jejune
- junior
- kid stuff
- milk-fed
- naive
- pubescent
- puerile
- teenage
- tender
- undeveloped
- unfledged
- unripe
- unsophisticated
- unweaned
- vernal
- young
- younger
- youthful
- abundant
- arable
- bearing
- black
- bountiful
- breeding
- breedy
- bringing forth
- childing
- fecund
- feracious
- flowering
- flowing with milk and honey
- fruitful
- generative
- gravid
- hebetic
- loamy
- lush
- luxuriant
- plenteous
- plentiful
- pregnant
- procreant
- producing
- productive
- proliferant
- prolific
- puberal
- pubescent
- rank
- rich
- spawning
- teeming
- uberous
- vegetative
- virile
- with child
- yielding
- adolescent
- anklebiter
- babe
- baby
- bairn
- bambino
- brat
- bud
- cherub
- chick
- cub
- descendant
- dickens
- imp
- infant
- innocent
- issue
- juvenile
- kid
- kiddie
- lamb
- little angel
- little darling
- little doll
- little one
- minor
- mite
- moppet
- neonate
- nestling
- newborn
- nipper
- nursling
- offspring
- preteen
- progeny
- pubescent
- shaver
- small fry
- sprout
- squirt
- stripling
- suckling
- tadpole
- teen
- teenager
- teenybopper
- toddler
- tyke
- urchin
- whippersnapper
- young one
- youngster
- youth
- adolescent
- blooming
- blossoming
- boyish
- boylike
- budding
- burgeoning
- callow
- childish
- childlike
- crude
- developing
- early
- fledgling
- fresh
- girlish
- girllike
- green
- growing
- half-grown
- ignorant
- inexperienced
- infant
- inferior
- junior
- juvenile
- little
- modern
- new
- newborn
- newish
- not aged
- pubescent
- puerile
- punk
- raw
- recent
- tender
- tenderfoot
- undeveloped
- undisciplined
- unfinished
- unfledged
- unlearned
- unpracticed
- unripe
- unseasoned
- untried
- unversed
- vernal
- youthful
- adolescent
- blooming
- blossoming
- boyish
- boylike
- budding
- burgeoning
- callow
- childish
- childlike
- crude
- developing
- early
- fledgling
- fresh
- girlish
- girllike
- green
- growing
- half-grown
- ignorant
- inexperienced
- infant
- inferior
- junior
- juvenile
- little
- modern
- new
- newborn
- newish
- not aged
- pubescent
- puerile
- punk
- raw
- recent
- tender
- tenderfoot
- undeveloped
- undisciplined
- unfinished
- unfledged
- unlearned
- unpracticed
- unripe
- unseasoned
- untried
- unversed
- vernal
- youthful
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