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pubescent

adjective
🔊/pjuːˈbesnt/
🔊/pjuːˈbesnt/
 [usually before noun] (formal)
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  1. in the period of a person’s life when they are changing physically from a child to an adult青春期的；到达发育期的Topics Life stagesc2
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French, or from Latin pubescent- ‘reaching puberty’, from the verb pubescere.