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