puberty / ˈpyu bər ti /

💦中学词汇发育期青春期发育年龄思春期

puberty 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.

puberty 近义词

n. 名词 noun

young adulthood

更多puberty例句

  1. Taken together, Romeo’s studies suggested that neuroendocrine stress responses get shaped during puberty to emerge differently in adulthood.
  2. In other words, something happens in puberty — but not earlier in childhood — that allows the brain to shift back to normal stress responses that had been skewed by early trauma.
  3. The responses were being shaped more powerfully when those stressors occurred around puberty rather than later in life.
  4. Others were young and had not yet undergone the rat version of puberty.
  5. This suggests that puberty may offer a greater potential for change.
  6. That our Post-Puberty Dennis the Menace appears to be lost in such deep slumber seems only understandable.
  7. Puberty, pū′bėr-ti, n. the age of full development: early manhood or womanhood: the period when a plant begins to flower.
  8. Puberty is reached relatively late, usually between the fourteenth and sixteenth years.
  9. Puberty comes to both sexes as early as at ten and eleven years.
  10. By "Puberty" is meant the age at which a woman begins her period of possible child-bearing experience.
  11. Puberty marks its advent, although the exact sign of its arrival is hard to determine.