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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yellowthroat | (noun) small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat | - |
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