Sexual maturity
Sexual maturity is the age/stage when an organism can reproduce. It is sometimes considered synonymous with adulthood, though the two are distinct. In humans, the process of sexually maturing is termed puberty.Most multicellular organisms are unable to sexually reproduce at birth (or germination), and depending on the species, it may be days, weeks, or years until their bodies are able to do so. Also, certain cues may cause the organism to become sexually mature. They may be external, such as drought, or internal, such as percentage of body fat (such internal cues are not to be confused with hormones which directly produce sexual maturity).
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adult male
Noun
1. an adult male person (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
(synonym) man
(hypernym) male, male person
(hyponym) Adam
(part-meronym) adult male body, man's body