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Webster 1913 Edition


Impuberal

Im-pu′ber-al

(ĭm-pū′bẽr-al)
,
Adj.
Not having arrived at puberty; immature.
In
impuberal
animals the cerebellum is, in proportion to the brain proper, greatly less than in adults.
Sir W. Hamilton.

Definition 2024


impuberal

impuberal

English

Adjective

impuberal (comparative more impuberal, superlative most impuberal)

  1. (rare) Immature; not having come to puberty.
    • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 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.