puberulent

1. 1.

   covered with fine soft hairs or down

   “downy milkweed seeds”

   Synonymsdownypubescentsericeous

   Similarhairy

   biology

Questions about puberulent

What does puberulent mean?

puberulent means "covered with fine soft hairs or down".

How many syllables are in puberulent?

puberulent has 4 syllables: pu-be-ru-lent. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for puberulent?

Close synonyms include downy, pubescent, sericeous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is puberulent a common word?

puberulent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.