Synonyms: growth, emergence, outgrowth
Definition: the gradual beginning or coming forth
Usage: figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
Similar words: beginning
Definition: the event consisting of the start of something
Usage: the beginning of the war
Synonyms: growth
Definition: vegetation that has grown
Usage: a growth of trees; the only growth was some salt grass
Similar words: botany, flora, vegetation
Definition: all the plant life in a particular region or period
Usage: Pleistocene vegetation; the flora of southern California; the botany of China
Synonyms: growth
Definition: something grown or growing
Usage: a growth of hair
Similar words: physical object, object
Definition: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow
Usage: it was full of rackets, balls and other objects
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: organic process, biological process
Definition: a process occurring in living organisms
Synonyms: growth
Definition: a progression from simpler to more complex forms
Usage: the growth of culture
Similar words: development, evolution
Definition: a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
Usage: the development of his ideas took many years; the evolution of Greek civilization; the slow development of her skill as a writer
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: physical process, process
Definition: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
Usage: events now in process; the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls
Synonyms: growth
Definition: (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Similar words: illness, unwellness, sickness, malady
Definition: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism