PUBERAL
Pu"ber*al, a. Etym: [From L. puber, pubes, grown up, adult.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to puberty.
PUBERTY Pu"ber*ty, n. Etym: [L. pubertas, fr. puber, pubes, adult: cf. F. puberté.]
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.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: The period when a plant first bears flowers.
PUBERULENT
Pu*ber"u*lent, a. Etym: [See Pubis.] (Bot.)
Defn: Very minutely downy.
PUBES Pu"bes, n. Etym: [L., the hair which appears on the body at puberty, from pubes adult.]
1. (Anat.) (a) The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty. (b) Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.