puberty

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The stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction.

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The condition of being able to reproduce; sexual maturity in the human race.

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In botany, the period when a plant begins to bear flowers.

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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.

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The period when a plant first bears flowers.

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the age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction

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the time of life when sex glands become functional