Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with minute hairs or very fine down; finely pubescent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Finely and softly pubescent; downy.
- In botany, covered with fine, short down; minutely pubescent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Very minutely downy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective covered in soft,
downy hairs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with fine soft hairs or down
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fronds eight to twelve inches high, lanceolate, bipinnatifid, finely glandular-puberulent.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton
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= -- On trunks of old trees thick, shallow-channeled, broad-ridged; on stems of young trees and upon branches smooth, greenish; season's shoots at first rusty-scurfy or puberulent, in late autumn becoming smooth and light russet brown.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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= -- Bark of trunk dark gray, thick, hard, close, and rough, becoming narrow-rugged-furrowed; crinkly on small trunks and branches; leaf-scars prominent; season's shoots stout, brown, downy or dusty puberulent, dotted, resinous-scented.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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Sterile catkins mostly in threes, 3-4 inches long: fertile catkins 1-1-1/2 inches long, cylindrical, slender-peduncled, erect or spreading; bracts puberulent.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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Capsule conical-cylindric, 5-ribbed, 25-35 mm, puberulent and sparsely setose.
Find Me A Cure Mukul 2010
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Petiole 2-6 mm, puberulent and ± setose; leaf blade papery, oblong to oblong - lanceolate, 5-11 × 1. 5-3.5 cm; base cuneate; margin ciliate; apex obtuse and mucronate; abaxial surface densely gray-white-pubescent, yellow-brown setose along midrib; adaxial surface sparsely to densely puberulent when young.
Find Me A Cure Mukul 2010
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Fruits 8-11 mm, 2. 5-3 times longer than wide, puberulent.
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Fruits 8-11 mm, 2. 5-3 times longer than wide, puberulent.
bilby commented on the word puberulent
Hmmmm.
September 23, 2008