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

Once again his hero is the middle-aged man of intelligence and high attainment who is facing his psychological climacteric.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had, not up to the time Angela walked into the room, really expected anything so dramatic and climacteric to happen, though what he did expect was never really very clear to him.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore