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The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence. (more info) The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty. Hence , the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic

Additional info about word: PUBES

The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence. (more info) The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty. Hence , the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.

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• PUBESCENCE
  1. The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty. Sir T. Browne. 2. A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• VILLOUS
  Furnished or clothed with villi. (more info) 1. Abounding in, or covered with, fine hairs, or a woolly substance; shaggy with soft hairs; nappy.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PUBERTY
  The period when a plant first bears flowers. (more info) 1. The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• HYPOGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region. Hypogastric region. The lower part of the abdomen. An arbitrary division of the abdomen below the umbilical and between the two iliac regions.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• PUBIC
  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. Of or pertaining to the pubis.
• LOWER-CASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• SUBSTANCELESS
  Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
• GROWSE
  To shiver; to have chills. Ray.
• LOWERING
  Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• DOWNY
  1. Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. "A downy feather." Shak. Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon. 2. Made of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet. "A downy
• REGION
  1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• FAVILLOUS
  Of or pertaining to ashes. Light and favollous particles. Sir T. Browne.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.