climacteric

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Tomatoes are climacteric, meaning they will continue to ripen after they are picked.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 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

The hope could be felt by those afflicted with anything from climacteric melancholia to a tendency to burp at cocktail parties.

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