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

In climacteric fruit, starch continues to be turned into sugar, improving texture and flavor, according to the Michigan State University Extension, which offers extremely helpful charts on all these categories.

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

Apparently up to the climacteric point he has done nothing but shake his head like a lazy, shaggy lion, tossing the blows from him.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was contemporaneous with the terminus of ancient Aryan civilization--it was during a climacteric in human history.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred