growth
Webster Dictionary
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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undercoat
Webster Dictionary
a growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat
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culminate
Webster Dictionary
growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals
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tumor
Webster Dictionary
a morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm
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stunt
Webster Dictionary
a check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing
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plant-cane
Webster Dictionary
a stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon
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economic growth
(economic growth)
Princeton's WordNet
steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income)
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allometry
(allometry)
Princeton's WordNet
the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole
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undercoat
(ˈʌn dərˌkoʊt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Zool. a growth of short fur or hair lying beneath a longer growth.
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auxin
(ˈɔk sɪn)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of a class of substances that in minute amounts regulate or modify the growth of plants, esp. root formation, bud growth, and fruit and leaf drop.
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vegetative
Webster Dictionary
having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal
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rank
Webster Dictionary
luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds
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luxuriance
Webster Dictionary
the state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth
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accretion
Webster Dictionary
the act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth
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misgrowth
Webster Dictionary
bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth
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mature
Webster Dictionary
brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe
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luxuriant
Webster Dictionary
exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage
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zone
Webster Dictionary
a band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth
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cancer
Webster Dictionary
formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework
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root
Webster Dictionary
the descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids
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allometry
(ˌæl ɔɪˈɒm-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole organism or some other part of it.
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endogenously
Webster Dictionary
by endogenous growth
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growable
Webster Dictionary
capable of growth
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growthful
Webster Dictionary
having capacity of growth
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ingrowth
Webster Dictionary
a growth or development inward
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roody
Webster Dictionary
rank in growth
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regrowth
Webster Dictionary
the act of regrowing; a second or new growth
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savagery
Webster Dictionary
wild growth, as of plants
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crinicultural
Webster Dictionary
relating to the growth of hair
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shoot
Webster Dictionary
a young branch or growth
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