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pubertal
Variant of puberty
noun
the stage of physical development when secondary sex characteristics develop and sexual reproduction first becomes possible: in common law, the age of puberty is generally fixed at fourteen for boys and twelve for girls
Related Forms:
- pubertal adjective
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