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adj. (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature; "the budding breasts of a pubescent girl and the downy chin of pubescent boy"

downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous

adj. covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds"

young, immature

adj. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"

adolescent

adj. in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls"

embryonic, embryologic, embryonal

adj. of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic stage"; "embryologic development"

inchoative

adj. beginning to develop; "inchoative stages"

larval

adj. immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage; "larval societies"; "larval crayfishes"; "the larval stage"

prepubescent, prepubertal

adj. (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth

prepupal

adj. of an inactive stage in the development of some insects, between the larval and the pupal stages; "the prepupal stage"

pupal

adj. of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage; "the pupal stage"

unformed

adj. not yet fully formed; "unformed still in body and mind"

hispid

adj. (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles; "plants with hispid stems"

comate, comose, comal

adj. of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair; "comate (or comose) seeds"; "a comal tuft"

floccose

adj. (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs

furred, furry

adj. covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs; "furred animals"; "a furry teddy bear"

fuzzy

adj. confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out; "a vague and fuzzy idea of the world of finance"

haired

adj. having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"

long-haired

adj. with long hair; "long-haired hippies"

pappose

adj. (of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles

pilous, pilose, pilary

adj. covered with hairs especially fine soft ones

shock-headed

adj. having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair; "shock-headed teenagers"

tomentose, tomentous

adj. densely covered with short matted woolly hairs; "a tomentose leaf"

wire-haired, wiry-coated

adj. (especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair; "a wire-haired terrier"

wooly, woolly, wooly-haired, woolly-haired

adj. covered with dense often matted or curly hairs; "woolly lambs"

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