Source : 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.

Source : WordNet®

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