climacteric

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

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2022

The ethylene producers I mention above are climacteric, as are stone fruit, pears, kiwi and mangoes.

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

Climacter′ical.—The grand climacteric, the sixty-third year, supposed to be a critical period for men.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various