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English Dictionary: puberty by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
puberty
n
  1. the time of life when sex glands become functional [syn: puberty, pubescence]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Puberty \Pu"ber*ty\, n. [L. pubertas, fr. puber, pubes, adult:
      cf. F. pubert[82].]
      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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