relating to or suitable for growth; the growing season for corn; good growing weather'

(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: growth , maturation , development , ontogeny , ontogenesis ]

(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state