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pubescent

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pubescent
1. arriving or having arrived at puberty
2. (of certain plants and animals or their parts) covered with a layer of fine short hairs or down


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The actor first rose to fame at age 16 when he portrayed the titular pubescent doctor on Doogie Howser, M.
The sisters' downscale apartments in the big city are a striking contrast, psychically as well as physically: Raimunda lives in cramped quarters with a no-account husband and her moody pubescent daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo).
Teenagers will sympathize with a pubescent Potter who must (like Spiderman and other adolescent heroes) save the world while trying to get up the nerve to ask a really cute girl to the high school dance.
 
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