climacteric

n. १ (as, a major turning point or critical state in a person’s life) परिवर्तकाल (पु.), परिवर्त (पु.) २ Bot. (the maximum to which the resipiratory rate of fruit rises just prior to full ripening and from which it falls during senescence) पक्वपूर्व काल (पु.), पक्वपूर्वता (स्त्री.) adj. (also climacterical) (constituting or relating to a climacteric) पक्वपूर्व