puberty
nounThe stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction.
nounThe condition of being able to reproduce; sexual maturity in the human race.
nounIn botany, the period when a plant begins to bear flowers.
nounThe 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.
nounThe period when a plant first bears flowers.
nounthe age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
nounthe time of life when sex glands become functional
