climacteric
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The ethylene producers I mention above are climacteric, as are stone fruit, pears, kiwi and mangoes.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022
These are called climacteric, and will respond to the presence of ethylene by producing more ethylene.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022
“The climacteric marks the end of apologising. The chrysalis of conditioning has once and for all to break and the female woman finally to emerge.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2018
Apparently up to the climacteric point he has done nothing but shake his head like a lazy, shaggy lion, tossing the blows from him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without, for a moment, suspecting that such wresting of male energies and efficiencies from its young women-victims has inevitably entailed upon them degrees of that climacteric of womanhood which is the herald of decline.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
