Pu"ber*ty (?), n. [L. pubertas, fr. puber, pubes, adult: cf. F. puberté.]
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.
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