Children
Pubescent
Pubescent adjective - (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature.
Children and pubescent are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Children" with "Pubescent", this adjectives are similar.
Nearby Word: pubescence
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- baby and children
- baby and pubescent
- youth and children
- youth and pubescent
- adolescent and children
- adolescent and pubescent
- juvenile and children
- juvenile and pubescent
- teenager and children
- teenager and pubescent
- issue and children
- issue and pubescent
- offspring and children
- offspring and pubescent
Both words in one sentence
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Huge Schoolboy: One of the "children" following Bud around looks a little too pubescent to play with that age group.
Source: Film / The Space Children -
Children Are Innocent: Subverted; Humbert is astonished by how much Lo already knows, even though a large part of his worldview revolves around the existence of a class of pubescent girls that are non-innocent by nature.
Source: Literature / Lolita -
Within six months, the population had been decimated and the only survivors were the pre-pubescent children, who somehow had to rebuild a society they never fully knew.
Source: Series / Jeremiah
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