Growth

noun

groʊθ

Noun

a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
“the growth of population”
Similar:Increase Increment
Type of:Process
vegetation that has grown
“a growth of trees”
“the only growth was some salt grass”
Type of:FloraVegetationBotany
a progression from simpler to more complex forms
“the growth of culture”
Type of:EvolutionDevelopment
something grown or growing
“a growth of hair”
Type of:Object
the gradual beginning or coming forth
Similar:EmergenceOutgrowth
Type of:Beginning
(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
Similar:Development Growing MaturationOntogenesisOntogeny
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Type of:MaladyIllnessSickness