puberty

[PuĀ·ber*ty]

Puberty is a time of life when your sex organs start working like an adult's. During puberty, girls and boys start to become women and men.

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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.

Noun
the time of life when sex glands become functional


n.
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.

n.
The period when a plant first bears flowers.


Puberty

Pu"ber*ty , n. [L. pubertas, fr. puber, pubes, adult: cf. F. pubert'82.] 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.

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.

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Usage Examples

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

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Other Usage Examples

I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

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