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    pubescent

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Human
    pu·bes·cent /pjuːˈbesənt/ adjective [usually before noun]  HBHa pubescent boy or girl is going through puberty 〔男孩或女孩〕处于青春期的
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    pubescent• The less pubescent diner can cast a detached eye on this ritual from six Formica-topped tables inside the tiny deli-restaurant.• Like pubescent first-timer thirteen-year-olds, they are to be avoided if you want more from life than cheap betrayals.• Her voice had the pubescent innocence of a junior high school majorette.• But insiders say the clean-up is really aimed at booting scores of barely pubescent, panhandling road-warrior wannabes from the Avenue.• I had seen this stuff sticking out of the sides of sand-dunes, sparse as pubescent whiskers.    Origin pubescent (1600-1700) Latin present participle of pubescere, from pubes; → PUBES
    pu·bes·cent adjectiveChineseSyllable
    pubescent Corpus girl is or boy going a


    pubescent
    pu‧bes‧cent /pjuːˈbesənt/ adjective [usually before noun]
     Date: 1600-1700
     Language: Latin
     Origin: present participle of pubescere, from pubes; ⇨ pubes
    a pubescent boy or girl is going through puberty


    pu·bes·centBrE /pjuːˈbesnt/ 🔊NAmE /pjuːˈbesnt/ 🔊 adjective [usually before noun] (formal) in the period of a person's life when they are changing physically from a child to an adult 青春期的；到达发育期的