climacteric

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These are called climacteric, and will respond to the presence of ethylene by producing more ethylene.

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

Physicians speak in a physiological sense of the grand climacteric of a man's age.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir