growing
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(satellite adjective) increasing in size or degree or amount; "her growing popularity"; "growing evidence of a world depression"; "a growing city"; "growing businesses" |
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(adjective) relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for corn"; "good growing weather" |
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(satellite adjective) having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life; "flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population" |
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Synonyms: flourishing, thriving |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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Related Words: amelogenesis, anthesis, auxesis, biological process, blossoming, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, cytogenesis, efflorescence, flowering, foliation, fructification, germination, inflorescence, juvenescence, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, leafing, life cycle, masculinization, oogenesis, organic process, palingenesis, proliferation, recapitulation, rooting, spermatogenesis, sprouting, virilization |
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