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The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.

The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty. Sir T. Browne.

Pubescence.

Arrived at puberty. That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. Sir T. Browne.

t.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon.

Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs. Gray.

Pubescent with minute and somewhat rigid hairs.

Hoary with white pubescence.

Covered with hairs or pubescence so platted together and interwoven as to form a mass easily removed.

quite. Honey mesquite. See Algaroba (b). -- Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians. -- Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in Western Texas (Bouteloua oligostachya, and other species); -- so called from its growing in company wit…

Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.

Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence.

having broad, reniform leaves. -- Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white. -- Ribwort plantain. See Ribwort. -- Robin's plantain, the Erigeron bellidifolium, a common daisylike plant of North America. -- Water plantain, a plant of the genus…

Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes.

-- Screw bean. (Bot.) (a) The curious spirally coiled pod of a leguminous tree (Prosopis pubescens) growing from Texas to California. It is used for fodder, and ground into meal by the Indians. (b) The tree itself. Its heavy hard wood is used for fuel, for fencing, and for railroad ties. -- Screw bolt, a bolt having…

The pubes; the sharebone. [Obs.] Holland. To go shares, to partake; to be equally concerned. -- Share and share alike, in equal shares.

pical countries, a few herbaceous species being North American. The foliage is often ashy-pubescent, whence the name.

Having the surface covered with a fine and dense silky pubescence; velvety; as, a velutinous leaf.