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climacteric

[klahy-mak-ter-ik, klahy-mak-ter-ik] / klaɪˈmæk tər ɪk, ˌklaɪ mækˈtɛr ɪk /
ADJECTIVE
critical
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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 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

At Mr. Darrow's feet the audience lays its climacteric offering of magnanimity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nature's laws are inexorable; every transgression, therefore, is surely punished, even at the climacteric period, if not before.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall




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