impuberal
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the stem of Latin impubes, from im- + pubes (“mature age, puberty”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
impuberal (comparative more impuberal, superlative most impuberal)
- (rare) Immature; not having come to puberty.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 41:
- Another revelation of impuberal softness [...] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.