grower | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, raiser |
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growing | (noun) (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 | Synonyms: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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(noun) (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | - |
growl | (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growling |
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growler | (noun) a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping | - |
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(noun) a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl | - |
growling | (noun) a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) | - |
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(noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growl |
grownup | (noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: adult |
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growth | (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, outgrowth |
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(noun) vegetation that has grown | - |
(noun) something grown or growing | - |
(noun) (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 | Synonyms: development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a progression from simpler to more complex forms | - |
(noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: increase, increment |
(noun) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | - |
ingrowth | (noun) something that grows inward | - |
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outgrowth | (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: appendage, process |
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(noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, growth |
(noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: branch, offset, offshoot |
overgrowth | (noun) a profusion of growth on or over something else | - |
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(noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, gigantism |
undergrowth | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, underwood |
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