pubescent

Reaching or having recently reached puberty.

Covered with short hairs or soft down.

Arriving at puberty.

Covered with pubescence, or fine short hair; downy.

In botany, covered or sprinkled with down or hairs: a general term, including villous, hirsute, strigose, lanate, etc., but when used alone in specific description denoting a soft or downy and short pubescence.