Impuberal

//ɪmˈpjuːbəɹəl// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Immature; not having come to puberty. rare

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From the stem of Latin impubes, from im- + pubes (“mature age, puberty”).

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