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NOUN | 1 | growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically |
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2 | growth | A progression from simpler to more complex forms | |
3 | growth, increase, increment | A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | |
4 | growth | Vegetation that has grown | |
5 | growth, emergence, outgrowth | The gradual beginning or coming forth | |
6 | growth | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | |
7 | growth | Something grown or growing |
Sounds | grow'th |
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Rhymes | both, Goethe, loath, and 6 more rhymes in owth at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | (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. |
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Synonyms | growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis |
Category of | isometry |
Category | biology, biological science |
Parts | gastrulation |
Narrower | culture; amelogenesis; angiogenesis; apposition; auxesis; blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence; cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis; cohesion; cytogenesis, cytogeny; foliation, leafing; fructification; gametogenesis; germination, sprouting; infructescence; intussusception; juvenescence; life cycle; masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation; morphogenesis; myelinization, myelinisation; neurogenesis; palingenesis, recapitulation; proliferation; psychomotor development; psychosexual development; rooting; suppression; teething, dentition, odontiasis; teratogenesis; vegetation |
Broader | organic process, biological process |
Contrary | nondevelopment |
Adjectives | growing |
Verbs | grow; grow; grow |
Meaning | A progression from simpler to more complex forms. |
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Examples | "the growth of culture" |
Broader | development, evolution |
Verbs | grow |
Meaning | A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important. |
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Examples | "the growth of population" |
Synonyms | increase, increment |
Narrower | accession; accretion, accumulation; accretion; accretion; accretion; multiplication; population growth; proliferation; pullulation; relaxation; widening, broadening |
Broader | process |
Contrary | decrease, decrement |
Verbs | grow |
Meaning | Vegetation that has grown. |
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Examples | "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" |
Broader | vegetation, flora |
Verbs | grow |
Meaning | The gradual beginning or coming forth. |
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Synonyms | emergence, outgrowth |
Narrower | rise |
Broader | beginning |
Verbs | grow; grow |
Meaning | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor). |
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Category | pathology |
Narrower | excrescence; exostosis; polyp, polypus; peduncle; tumor, tumour, neoplasm; hamartoma |
Broader | illness, unwellness, malady, sickness |
Adjectives | excrescent |
Meaning | Something grown or growing. |
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Examples | "a growth of hair" |
Narrower | ingrowth |
Broader | object, physical object |