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puberty


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Puberty  \Pu"ber*ty\,  n.  [L.  pubertas,  fr  puber,  pubes,  adult: 
  cf  F.  pubert['e].] 
  1.  The  earliest  age  at  which  persons  are  capable  of  begetting 
  or  bearing  children,  usually  considered,  in  temperate 
  climates,  to  be  about  fourteen  years  in  males  and  twelve 
  in  females. 
 
  2.  (Bot.)  The  period  when  a  plant  first  bears  flowers. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  puberty 
  n  :  the  time  of  life  when  sex  glands  become  functional  [syn:  {pubescence}] 




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