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puberulent

[ pyoo-ber-yuh-luhnt, -ber-uh- ]

adjective

Botany, Zoology.
  1. minutely pubescent.


puberulent

/ ʊˈɛʊəԳ /

adjective

  1. biology covered with very fine down; finely pubescent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of puberulent1

1860–65; < Latin ū- ( puberty ) + -ulent
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of puberulent1

C19: from Latin ū
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Much like the last, but the rather larger fronds puberulent beneath with minute jointed hairs and stalked glands; indusium deeply cleft into narrow segments ending in jointed hairs.—Rocky places, Minn., southward and westward.

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Bark.—On trunks of old trees thick, shallow-channeled, broad-ridged; on stems of young trees and upon branches smooth, greenish; season's shoots at first rusty-scurfy or puberulent, in late autumn becoming smooth and light russet brown.

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Finely puberulent; leaves mostly ovate and acutish with a cordate base, often small; flowers small and mostly cleistogamous.—Sandy or stony shores and islands of Lakes Huron and Superior.

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Leaves mostly pubescent or puberulent; hoods obtuse, entire, twice or thrice the length of the anthers.

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Stouter and more rigid, leaves of radical shoots thicker, linear, hoary, the cauline puberulent or glabrous, calyx canescent.

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