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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Duplicative :: Duplicative (a.) Having the quality of subdividing into two by natural growth.
Overgrow :: Overgrow (v. t.) To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank..
Plant :: Plant (n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth..
Epinastic :: Epinastic (a.) A term applied to that phase of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly on its upper than on its under surface. See Hyponastic.
Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth..
Duplicate :: Duplicate (v. t.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves..
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses..
Protonema :: Protonema (n.) The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed..
Plant :: Plant (n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize..
Excrement :: Excrement (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.
Accretion :: Accretion (n.) The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
Young :: Young (superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree..
Formative :: Formative (a.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter..
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius..
Accession :: Accession (n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf..
Springle :: Springing (n.) Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant..
Brake :: Brake (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes..
Undergrowth :: Undergrowth (n.) That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees..
Luxuriant :: Luxuriant (a.) Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage..
State :: State (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme..
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