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pubes

/ˈpjuːbiːz/

pubes is the plural of pubis.

pubes is the plural of pube.

Noun

pubes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, rare) The pubic hair.
  2. (plural, plural-only) The pubic region.

Meaning of pubis

Noun

pubis (plural pubes)

  1. The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.
    Synonyms:
    pubic bone

Meaning of pube

Noun

pube (plural pubes)

  1. (slang) A single pubic hair.
    • He was a man would could step back from a problem and look at it logically and find the sense in most given situations. Sure, questions such as ,“ Why are we here?” “Is there a God?“ and “Why is there a pube in the butter?” have stumped Jack in the past; however, in knowing that this is the case...2010, Nick Waugh-Bacchus, Platonic?, →ISBN, page 261

Origin of pubes

From Latin pubes (“the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, the genitals”), from pubes, puber (“grown up, of mature age; of plants, downy, pubescent”); see puberty.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words formed from pubes

Questions about pubes

What does pubes mean?
Pubes means the pubic hair.
What is pubes the plural of?
Pubes is the plural of pubis.
What part of speech is pubes?
Pubes is a noun.
How do you pronounce pubes?
Pubes is pronounced /ˈpjuːbiːz/.

Words near pubes in the dictionary

  1. puberulence
  2. puberulent
  3. puberulently
  4. puberulous
  5. puberulously
  6. pubes
  7. pubescence
  8. pubescences
  9. pubescency
  10. pubescenin
  11. pubescent

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pubes (page history and authors); pubis (page history and authors); pube (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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