climacteric
noun
a period of decrease of reproductive capacity in men and women, culminating, in women, in the menopause.
climacterically
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a word derived from
climacteric.
Example Sentences
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He was a man of moderate height, a little shortened in appearance by his equatorial dimensions, and a face that had been mellow from the first was now climacterically ripe.
From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
