climacteric

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Tomatoes are climacteric, meaning they will continue to ripen after they are picked.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2022

The ethylene producers I mention above are climacteric, as are stone fruit, pears, kiwi and mangoes.

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

Before reaching that climacteric, he resolves to write a hit musical and get married.

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 Kenealy, Arabella