Definition of development

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Development (n.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization..

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Embryogeny :: Embryogeny (n.) The production and development of an embryo.
Transmutation :: Transmutation (n.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism..
Histogenetic :: Histogenetic (a.) Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.
Prodigy :: Prodigy (n.) A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.
Nondevelopment :: Nondevelopment (n.) Failure or lack of development.
Integration :: Integration (n.) In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.
Environment :: Environment (n.) That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development..
Abort :: Abort (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile..
Melanism :: Melanism (n.) An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism.
Muscle :: Muscle (n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight..
Sterlet :: Sterilize (v. t.) To destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms..
Hotbed :: Hotbed (n.) A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition..
Aftergrowth :: Aftergrowth (n.) A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development..
Philology :: Philology (n.) The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science..
Physiophyly :: Physiophyly (n.) The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly..
Zooid :: Zooid (n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation..
Cambrian :: Cambrian (a.) Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.
Vitiligo :: Vitiligo (n.) A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body..
Abortion :: Abortion (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed..
Neoplasia :: Neoplasia (n.) Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.
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