资料来源 : pyDict

青春期,春情发动期,妙龄

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Puberty \Pu"ber*ty\, n. [L. pubertas, fr. puber, pubes, adult:
   cf. F. pubert['e].]
   1. 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.

   2. (Bot.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.

资料来源 : WordNet®

puberty
     n : the time of life when sex glands become functional [syn: {pubescence}]