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

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.

Hoary with white pubescence.

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

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.

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

Pubescence.

Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.

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

A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants. Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from a carcass. -- Mineral wool. See under Mineral. -- Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc. -- Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide. -- Slag wool. Same as…

Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool. Woolly bear (Zoöl.), the hairy larva of several species of bombycid moths. The most common species in the United States are the salt-marsh caterpillar (see under Salt), the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella moth (see Illust., under Isabella Moth),…