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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Run :: Run (a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly..
Feather-edge/ :: Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster..
Concrete :: Concrete (a.) United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form..
Amalgamate :: Amalgamate (v. i.) To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate..
Plant-cane :: Plant-cane (n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon..
Aftergrowth :: Aftergrowth (n.) A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development..
Auxanometer :: Auxanometer (n.) An instrument to measure the growth of plants.
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.
Hotbed :: Hotbed (n.) A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition..
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..
Upgrowth :: Upgrowth (n.) The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
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..
Embolus :: Embolus (n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism..
Overgrowth :: Overgrowth (n.) Excessive growth.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
Undergrowth :: Undergrowth (n.) That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees..
Zone :: Zone (n.) A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth..
Timbered :: Timbered (a.) Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land..
Dehorn :: Dehorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.
Enterocoele :: Enterocoele (n.) A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo..
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