Definition of growth

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Growth (n.) The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth..

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Disciflorous :: Disciflorous (a.) Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.
Upgrowth :: Upgrowth (n.) The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth..
Pumiced :: Pumiced (a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot..
Alimental :: Alimental (a.) Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap..
Photo-epinasty :: Photo-epinasty (n.) A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light..
Accrue :: Accrue (n.) To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent..
Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle..
Hinder :: Hinder (a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going..
Endogenously :: Endogenously (adv.) By endogenous growth.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc..
Heterotopy :: Heterotopy (n.) A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
Vegetate :: Vegetate (v. i.) To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate..
Boscage :: Boscage (n.) A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
Luxuriance :: Luxuriance (n.) The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth..
Noisette :: Noisette (n.) A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth..
Duplication :: Duplication (n.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells..
Merismatic :: Merismatic (a.) Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many..
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