| Pubescent 1. (a.) Arrived at puberty. 2. (a.) Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants. Thesaurus Entries adolescent, attenuate, attenuated, bristly, bushy, cirrose, dainty, delicate, downy, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, maturescent, nubile, pilose, refined, satin, satiny, shagged, shaggy, silky, smooth, thin-spun, unshorn, velutinous, velvety, wiredrawn, woolly |