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growth, development, growing, maturation, ontogeny, ontogenesis | [in 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 | |
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emergence, growth, outgrowth | the gradual beginning or coming forth | |
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growth | a progression from simpler to more complex forms | |
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growth, vegetation | something grown or growing | |
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growth, mass, outgrowth, cancer | [in pathology] an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | |
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growth | vegetation that has grown | |
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increase, growth, increment, expansion, enlargement | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important |