maturation
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(noun) coming to full development; becoming mature |
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Synonyms: maturement, maturing, ripening |
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Related Words: biological process, organic process |
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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, growth, 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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