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growth

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
  growing, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development,
• (n) a progression from simpler to more complex forms
  • the growth of culture
• (n) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
  • the increase in unemployment
  • the growth of population
  increment, increase,
• (n) vegetation that has grown
  • a growth of trees
  • the only growth was some salt grass
• (n) the gradual beginning or coming forth
  • figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
  emergence, outgrowth,
• (n) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
• (n) something grown or growing
  • a growth of hair

Synonyms

growing ontogenesis ontogeny maturation development increment increase emergence outgrowth

Antonyms

nondevelopment decrease decrement

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