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The answer PUBESCENT has 5 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of pubescent in various dictionaries:
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
adj - covered with fine soft hairs or down
Reaching or having reached puberty.
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| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Jan 29 2011 The Times - Cryptic |
| Sep 30 2006 New York Times |
| Apr 1 2006 The Times - Cryptic |
| Aug 25 2005 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Jul 15 2005 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
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| A pubescent child is at the stage in life when they are developing from a child into an adult and becoming able to have children: |
| Reaching or having reached puberty. |
| Covered with short hairs or soft down. |
| relating to or denoting a person at or approaching the age of puberty. |
| a person at or approaching the age of puberty. |
| (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 |
| covered with fine soft hairs or down |
| Relating to or denoting a person at or approaching the age of puberty. |
| Covered with short soft hair downy. |
| A person at or approaching the age of puberty. |
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Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction. It is initiated by hormonal signals from the brain to the gonads: the ovaries in a girl, the testes in a boy. In response to the signals, the gonads produce hormones that stimulate libido and the growth, function, and transformation of the brain, bones, muscle, blood, skin, hair, breasts, and sex organs. Physical growthheight and weightaccelerates in the first half of puberty and is completed when an adult body has been developed. Until the maturation of their reproductive capabilities, the pre-pubertal physical differences between boys and girls are the external sex organs. * On average, girls begin puberty around ages 1011 and end puberty around 1517; boys begin around ages 1112 and end around 1617. The major landmark of puberty for females is menarche, the onset of menstruation, which occurs on average between ages 12 and 13; for males, it is the first eja |