Index of English words, starting with "pu"

(1) - Puberty (n.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.
(2) - Puberty (n.) 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.

(1) - Pubescence (n.) A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
(2) - Pubescence (n.) The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.

(1) - Pubescent (a.) Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.
(2) - Pubescent (a.) Arrived at puberty.

(1) - Pubic (a.) Of or pertaining to the pubis.
(2) - Pubic (a.) 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.