Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese man.

where a young girl after her first menstrual period is made a party where it pierces the septum of the pubescent female placing a ring with coconut oil as an antiseptic.

Thus the dedication is a symbolic " marriage " of the pubescent girl to the temple's deity.

A similar analysis of Figure 6 for the 34 boys would necessitate quite a different conclusion about the predictive value of onset age in forecasting their attainment of the pubescent stage.

thus early forecasting of the pubescent stage would appear possible for only seven boys.

The fruit is a drupe similar to a small peach, diameter ( larger in some modern cultivars ), from yellow to orange, often tinged red on the side most exposed to the sun ; its surface can be smooth ( botanically described as: glabrous ) or velvety with very short hairs ( botanically: pubescent ).

Vegetation in the region may be divided into belts: the common oak belt which is now covered ( apart from the mesóla forest ) with fruit orchards and fields of wheat and sugar beet, the pubescent and Adriatic oak belts on the lower slopes up to 900 m, the beech belt between 1, 000 and 1, 500 m and the final mountain heath belt.

The two western varieties are distinguished by pubescent ( downy ) shoots, and may be related to extensive hybridisation and / or intergradation with the closely related Engelmann Spruce found further south in the Rocky Mountains.

The unusual spotted markings on what seemed to be smallish adult lions prompted interest from the Nairobi Game Department ; they were from pubescent lions and yet had prominent spots that are typical only of cubs.

The stems can be smooth or pubescent ; they are long and trailing, possessing many tendrils.

The inner surface of the acorn cap is glabrous ( hairless ) to sparsely or moderately pubescent, and the hairs if present tend to be kinky rather than straight.

In a simple genus, containing only two species, it was easy to distinguish them apart with a one-word genus and a one-word specific name ; but as more species were discovered the names necessarily became longer and unwieldy, for instance Plantago foliis ovato-lanceolatus pubescen tibus, spica cylindrica, scapo tereti ( Plantain with pubescent ovate-lanceolate leaves, a cylindric spike and a terete scape ), which we know today as Plantago media.

Even Lester's transformation only comes about because of the possibility of sex with Angela ; he therefore remains a " willing devotee of the popular media's exultation of pubescent male sexuality as a route to personal wholeness ".

The shoots are brown to olive-green, turning gray-brown with age, smooth, though not as smooth as fir shoots, and finely pubescent with short dark hairs.

The shoots are brown to gray-brown, smooth, though not as smooth as fir shoots, and finely pubescent with scattered short hairs.

Branchlets at first bright green, pubescent, during first winter they become light brown tinged with orange, later they become a paler orange brown.

The flowers have large sepals, with a central green rib and their color varies from white to pink, while petals are short, pubescent, yellow to greenish.

Sesame fruit is a capsule, normally pubescent, rectangular in section and typically grooved with a short triangular beak.

Rhysocaryon ( black walnuts ) Leaves are large ( 20 – 50 cm ), with 11 – 23 slender leaflets, finely pubescent, margins serrated.

The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, long, with an entire margin and densely pubescent with fine white hairs.

As with sexual preference in general, it is not known what causes someone to prefer a pubescent rather than an adult individual for sexual reasons.

* pilose – pubescent with long, straight, soft, spreading or erect hairs

In Japan, the term describes an attraction to underage girls ( whether prepubescent, pubescent, or post-pubescent ) or an individual with such an attraction.

Some botanists treat Siberian Spruce as a subspecies of Norway Spruce, though in their typical forms, they are very distinct, the Siberian Spruce having cones only 5 – 10 cm long, with smoothly rounded scales, and pubescent ( hairy ) shoots.

Some of his work features photographs of " pre-to barely pubescent boys " ( Art in America, Dec, 2001 ) in elaborately staged tableau settings, commonly showing multiple boys wearing traditional private school uniforms either engaged in school-life or recreation after school — but with often transgressive and erotic twists in their activities.

Chris deals with the problems that most pubescent boys face: acne, girls, and school.

The leaves are alternate, simple, 10 – 25 cm long, dark green, tough and leathery in texture, with a serrated margin, and densely velvety-hairy below with thick yellow-brown pubescence ; the young leaves are also densely pubescent above, but this soon rubs off.

It is a medium-sized coniferous evergreen tree growing to 20 – 35 m tall, exceptionally to 40 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. The shoots are buff-brown, and densely pubescent ( hairy ).

The stem is fleshy, about 30 – 90 cm, either with long rigid hairs ( hispidly villous ) or tomentose ( densely covered with soft, short and erect hairs, pubescent ).

Wendell's nasally pubescent voice and BLT sandwiches are always there for Noir, though his character is minor.

Sexual taboos in traditional Opata society included forcible rape, sexual contact with prepubescent children on the part of pubescent people, and intercourse with a woman during her menstrual cycle.

Usually, only pubescent or adult males are able to grow beards.

The pubescent oak ( Quercus pubescens ) is a xerophyt and normally only occurs in Southern Europe, but is also able to survive at the Kaiserstuhl.

One growth center in a short bone -- distal phalanx of the second finger -- was chosen as an example for discussion here, primarily because epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion, the maturity indicator for Completion in long and short bones, occurs in this center for girls near the menarche and for boys near their comparable pubescent stage.

Wilhelm Reich commented that sex education of his time was a work of deception, focusing on biology while concealing excitement-arousal, which is what a pubescent individual is mostly interested in.

The outside texture of the flower tube is either glabrous or pubescent.

Although the genre is called Boys ' Love ( commonly abbreviated as " BL "), the males featured are pubescent or older.

Yaoi began in the dōjinshi ( fan fiction ) markets of Japan in the late 1970s / early 1980s as an outgrowth of shōnen-ai, also known as " Juné " or " tanbi " ( which contain platonic relationships between pubescent or pre-pubescent boys ), but whereas shōnen-ai were original works, yaoi were parodies of popular shōnen anime and manga.

They come out of the bud involute, pale bright green, pubescent and tomentose, when full grown are thick, firm, dark green, shining above, paler green below.

Petioles slender, pubescent, slightly grooved.

They come out of the bud convolute, yellow green or bronze, shining above, very pubescent below.

When full grown are thick, firm, dark yellow green, somewhat shining above, pale green and pubescent below ; midribs stout, yellow, primary veins conspicuous.

They are dark green and glossy above, pubescent underneath, and often remain attached to the twigs through the winter after turning colors from red to brown in the fall.

It refers to a genre of manga and anime wherein pre-pubescent or pubescent male characters are depicted in a suggestive or erotic manner.

In 2006, Juné released an English translation of Mako Takahashi's under the title " Almost Crying ", a non-erotic shotacon manga ; the book contains several stories featuring pubescent male characters, but their relationships are nonsexual.

" Straight shota " typically involves heterosexual escapades between smaller, often pubescent males and bountifully developed young women.

* In Lolita, the protagonist is attracted to pubescent girls whom he dubs " nymphets "; " faunlets " are the male equivalent.

Gynecomastia, although not as severe, may occur in pubescent boys undergoing physical changes due to the rapid and uncontrolled release of hormones, including estrogen.

The heightened levels of estrogen in pubescent male bodies leads to the swelling of the nipple and surrounding tissue – this can often look similar to a female human nipple – and may cause slight discomfort.