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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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maturation, ripening, maturement | coming to full development; becoming mature | ||
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suppuration, festering, maturation | [in medicine] the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus |