Main entry: growth, emergence, outgrowth
Definition: the gradual beginning or coming forth
Usage: figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
Main entry: growth
Definition: vegetation that has grown
Usage: a growth of trees; the only growth was some salt grass
Main entry: growth
Definition: something grown or growing
Usage: a growth of hair
Main entry: growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development
Definition: (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
Usage: he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
Main entry: growth
Definition: a progression from simpler to more complex forms
Usage: the growth of culture
Main entry: increase, increment, growth
Definition: a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
Usage: the increase in unemployment; the growth of population
Main entry: growth
Definition: (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)