puberal

ADJECTIVE

fertile

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich

WEAK

bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey generative gravid hebetic loamy luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing proliferant prolific pubescent rank spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

Antonyms

STRONGEST

barren impotent sparse unfruitful unproductive

WEAK

fruitless infertile sterile useless

ADJECTIVE

proliferous

Synonyms

WEAK

abundant arable bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey fruitful generative gravid hebetic loamy lush luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing productive proliferant prolific pubescent rank rich spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding

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According to the data collected by Frisch, the prostate gland, comparatively small in childhood, first begins to grow quickly at the epoch of the puberal development.

From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden

This is a fair estimate, but it does not correspond to the totality of the period of the puberal development.

From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden

True Graafian follicles, of which an29 account has already been given, are not usually formed prior to the beginning of the puberal development; occasionally, however, they are formed in the ovaries of immature girls.

From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden

Only during the puberal development does the prostate gland attain its full size; according to the researches of Englisch, who observed 1282 instances, this does not occur until after the full development of the testicles.

From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden

As regards the prostate 56gland, it is supposed that this first begins to secrete at the commencement of the age of puberal development or even later.

From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden

puberal

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