Definition of "puberulent" []

• Covered with minute hairs or very fine down; finely pubescent. (adjective)

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• "Fronds eight to twelve inches high, lanceolate, bipinnatifid, finely glandular-puberulent."
• "= -- On trunks of old trees thick, shallow-channeled, broad-ridged; on stems of young trees and upon branches smooth, greenish; season's shoots at first rusty-scurfy or puberulent, in late autumn becoming smooth and light russet brown."
• "= -- Bark of trunk dark gray, thick, hard, close, and rough, becoming narrow-rugged-furrowed; crinkly on small trunks and branches; leaf-scars prominent; season's shoots stout, brown, downy or dusty puberulent, dotted, resinous-scented."