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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

adolescence

noun

1: the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood

2: in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Adolescence \Ad'o*les"cence\, noun [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.] The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
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