growth
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(noun) vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" |
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Related Words: flora, vegetation |
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(noun) something grown or growing; "a growth of hair" |
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Related Words: ingrowth, object, physical object |
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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, growing, 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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(noun) a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture" |
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Related Words: development, evolution |
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(noun) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |
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Related Words: illness, malady, neoplasm, peduncle, polyp, polypus, sickness, tumor, tumour |
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(noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" |
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Synonyms: emergence, outgrowth |
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Related Words: beginning, rise |
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(noun) a process of becoming larger; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" |
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Synonyms: increase, increment |
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Related Words: accretion, accumulation, broadening, multiplication, process, pullulation, teemingness, widening |
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