Crossword-Solution: PUBERTY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Puberty | n. | The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females. |
| Puberty | n. | The period when a plant first bears flowers. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
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greedy person
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Sentences with PUBERTY (5)
The feeling of apartness from others comes to most with puberty, but it is not always developed to such a degree as to make the difference between the individual and his fellows noticeable to the individual.
They protected all persons of illustrious or honorable rank, bishops and their presbyters, professors of the liberal arts, soldiers and their families, municipal officers, and their posterity to the third generation, and all children under the age of puberty.
Till the infant could speak, and think, he was represented by the tutor, whose authority was finally determined by the age of puberty.
After her death he was contracted to Anne, or Constance, a natural daughter of the emperor Frederic 499 the Second; but as the bride had not attained the years of puberty, Vataces placed in his solitary bed an Italian damsel of her train; and his amorous weakness bestowed on the concubine the honors, though not the title, of a lawful empress.
The season of puberty also, and all the excitements from this source, "that flesh is heir to," demand the utmost vigilance and the strictest restraint.
Quotes with PUBERTY (3)
Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists - although heavy on the wonder side, and light on skepticism. They're curious, intellectually vigorous. Provocative and insightful questions bubble out of them. They exhibit enormous enthusiasm. I'm asked follow-up questions. They've never heard of the notion of a 'dumb question'. But when I talk to high school seniors, I find something differe…
The lessons of relationship that our primordial ancestors learned are deeply encoded in the genetics of our neurobiological circuits of love. They are present from the moment we are born and activated at puberty by the cocktail of neurochemicals. It’s an elegant synchronized system. At first our brain weighs a potential partner, and if the person fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuat…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1999–2024).