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English to English noun
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(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 |  | Example: he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
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a progression from simpler to more complex forms | | Example: the growth of culture
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a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | | Example: the increase in unemployment
the growth of population
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vegetation that has grown | | Example: a growth of trees
the only growth was some salt grass
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the gradual beginning or coming forth | | Example: figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
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(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | | source: wordnet30
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something grown or growing | | Example: a growth of hair
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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. | | source: webster1913
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