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Definition of Puberulent
1. Adjective. Covered with fine soft hairs or down. "Downy milkweed seeds"
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Haired, Hairy, Hirsute
Derivative terms: Down, Downiness
Definition of Puberulent
1. a. Very minutely downy.
Definition of Puberulent
1. Adjective. covered in soft, downy hairs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Puberulent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puberulent
| pubbiest pubbing pubbish pubble pubby pubcaster pubcasters pubco pubcos puberal | pubertal pubertally puberties puberulent (current term) pubescence pubescences pubescency pubescent pubescently pubgoer | pubgoers |
Literary usage of Puberulent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... from Maryland to Georgia and Alabama first coll. by Curtis. S. bicolor, I-.
puberulent, commonly cinereous : stem often hirsute ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"leaves oblong or even obovate, narrowed to a rather long, often rarely puberulent;
darker green than in the next species; radical long, the cauline similar ..."
3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"1905.;—Very common on rocky ridges and steep slopes: from New Mexico to British
America. unilateral), more or less glandular-puberulent : calyx campanulate, ..."
4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"... terminating in a foliaceous slightly-denticulate apex, bordered •with glands
and somewhat puberulent, spreading at flowering, then erect, 2 entire, ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Annual or biennial, erect, very slender, simple or diffuse, 1-4 din. high,
glabrous, the branchlets and capsules puberulent; caulim leaves linear-filiform, ..."
6. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Erect, puberulent, 2-9 dm. high; leaves linear to narrowly oblanceolate, entire
or nearly so, minutely puberulent ..."
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