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English noun: growth | |||
| 1. | growth (process) (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 | ||
| Samples | He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children. | ||
| Synonyms | development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | biological process, organic process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | amelogenesis, angiogenesis, anthesis, apposition, auxesis, blossoming, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, culture, cytogenesis, cytogeny, dentition, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, foliation, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, habit, inflorescence, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, leafing, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, odontiasis, palingenesis, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, recapitulation, rooting, sprouting, suppression, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation, virilisation, virilization | ||
| Part holonym | gastrulation | ||
| Domain category | biological science, biology | ||
| Domain category members | isometry | ||
| Antonyms | nondevelopment | ||
| 2. | growth (process) a progression from simpler to more complex forms | ||
| Samples | The growth of culture. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | development, evolution | ||
| 3. | growth (process) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | ||
| Samples | The increase in unemployment. The growth of population. | ||
| Synonyms | increase, increment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | physical process, process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | accession, accretion, accretion, accretion, accretion, accumulation, broadening, multiplication, population growth, proliferation, pullulation, relaxation, widening | ||
| Antonyms | decrease, decrement | ||
| 4. | growth (group) vegetation that has grown | ||
| Samples | A growth of trees. The only growth was some salt grass. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | botany, flora, vegetation | ||
| 5. | growth (event) the gradual beginning or coming forth | ||
| Samples | Figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece. | ||
| Synonyms | emergence, outgrowth | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | beginning | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | rise | ||
| 6. | growth (state) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | illness, malady, sickness, unwellness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | excrescence, exostosis, hamartoma, neoplasm, peduncle, polyp, polypus, tumor, tumour | ||
| Domain category | pathology | ||
| 7. | growth (object) something grown or growing | ||
| Samples | A growth of hair. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | object, physical object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ingrowth | ||
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