climacteric

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

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 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

At Mr. Darrow's feet the audience lays its climacteric offering of magnanimity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nothing that had happened before the Asolando mattered greatly; my meeting with Miss Octavia Hollister had marked a climacteric from which all events must now be reckoned.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Nicholson, Meredith