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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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