GROWTH
Definition:
- [noun] (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
Synonyms: growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
- [noun] a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"
- [noun] a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
Synonyms: increase, increment
- [noun] vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"
- [noun] the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
Synonyms: emergence, out
- [noun] (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
- [noun] something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"
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Related Words:
- culture
- amelogenesis
- angiogenesis
- apposition
- auxesis
- blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
- cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis
- cohesion
- cytogenesis, cytogeny
- foliation, leafing
- fructification
- gametogenesis
- germination, sprouting
- infructescence
- intussusception
- juvenescence
- life cycle
- masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation
- morphogenesis
- myelinization, myelinisation
- neurogenesis
- palingenesis, recapitulation
- proliferation
- psychomotor development
- psychosexual development
- rooting
- suppression
- teething, dentition, odontiasis
- teratogenesis
- vegetation
- accession
- accretion, accumulation
- accretion
- accretion
- accretion
- multiplication
- population growth
- proliferation
- pullulation
- relaxation
- widening, broadening
- rise
- excrescence
- exostosis
- polyp, polypus
- peduncle
- tumor, tumour, neoplasm
- hamartoma
- ingrowth
