| 单词 | climacteric |
| 释义 | climacteric —climacterically, adv. /kluy mak"teuhr ik, kluy'mak ter"ik/, n. 1. Physiol. a period of decrease of reproductive capacity in men and women, culminating, in women, in the menopause. 2. any critical period. 3. a year in which important changes in health, fortune, etc., are held by some theories to occur, as one's sixty-third year (grand climacteric). 4. the period of maximum respiration in a fruit, during which it becomes fully ripened. adj. 5. Also, climacterical /kluy'mak ter"i keuhl/. critical; crucial. [1595-1605; < L climactericus < Gk klimakterikós (klimaktér rung of a ladder, critical point in life, equiv. to klimak-, s. of klîmax (see CLIMAX) + -ter n. suffix) + -ikos -IC] |
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