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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Puberty \Pu"ber*ty\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
puberty
noun: the time of life when sex glands become functional [syn: {pubescence}]
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