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
In climacteric fruit, starch continues to be turned into sugar, improving texture and flavor, according to the Michigan State University Extension, which offers extremely helpful charts on all these categories.
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
If he was right in fixing his climacteric at sixteen he might well have been dead.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
