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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Puberty

/pyo͞ob'-ẽrt-ē/ · Pu·ber·ty · IPA /ˈpju.bɚ.ti/
01 n. The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about four…
  1. 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. 2.
    The period when a plant first bears flowers.(Bot.)