impuberal

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpjuːbəɹəl/

Adjective

impuberal (comparative more impuberal, superlative most impuberal)

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