downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous
(adjective) covered with fine soft hairs or down; “downy milkweed seeds”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
From the Latin puber, (downy, adult) + -ulent, from ulentus, (abounding in).
puberulent (comparative more puberulent, superlative most puberulent)
covered in soft, downy hairs
Source: Wiktionary
Pu*ber"u*lent, a. Etym: [See Pubis.] (Bot.)
Definition: Very minutely downy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 April 2025
(noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
