growing

  • (a) relating to or suitable for growth
    • the growing season for corn
    • good growing weather

Nouns

  • (n) (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
    growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development,
  • (n) (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

Synonyms

growth ontogenesis ontogeny maturation development

Antonyms

nondevelopment

Words of close approximity

growing pains growing season