1. (noun)growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis (biology) the process of an individualorganismgrowing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a morecomplexlevel "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
3. (noun)increase, increment, growth a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
"the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
4. (noun)growth vegetation that has grown
"a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"
5. (noun)emergence, outgrowth, growth the gradual beginning or coming forth
"figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
6. (noun)growth (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
7. (noun)growth something grown or growing
"a growth of hair"