climacteric
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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
The year has reached its grand climacteric, and is fast falling “into the sere, the yellow leaf.”
From Mirror of the Months by Patmore, Peter George
