Ad`o*les"cence (#), n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.]

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

 

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