(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; he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children

[ Syn: growing , maturation , development , ontogeny , ontogenesis ]

a progression from simpler to more complex forms; the growth of culture'

a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; the increase in unemployment; the growth of population

[ Syn: increase , increase , increment , increment ]

vegetation that has grown; a growth of trees; the only growth was some salt grass'

the gradual beginning or coming forth; figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece

[ Syn: emergence , outgrowth ]

(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

something grown or growing; a growth of hair'