pubes

The lower part of the abdomen, especially the region surrounding the external genitals.

The hair that appears on this region at puberty.

. The pubescence or hairiness of the genitals, which appears at puberty.

Hence The place where hair grows at puberty; the suprapubic or hypogastric region, at, the middle of the lowest part of the abdomen: in women known as the mons, or mons Veneris.

The pubic bones, or bony framework of the pubes; the underlying skeleton of the pubic region, more fully called os pubis. There being a pair of pubic bones, right and left, each is now called os pubis, plural ossa pubis, or, more frequently, pubis, in the plural pubes. See pubis.

In botany, same as pubescence, 3.

Plural of pubis.

The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty.