Growth: alternatives and connections

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

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The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

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The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of…

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The period or state of full expansion in a flower.

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The act of adding; application; accretion.

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A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

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of Blossom

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of Broaden

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The act or state of sticking together; close union.

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The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

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The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

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Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.

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Cell production or development; cytogenesis.

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The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

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Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

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An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a tr…

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Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.

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A bursting into flower; a blossoming.

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of Flower

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The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

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The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.

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The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.

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The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a relig…

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A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

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A growth or development inward.

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The reception of one part within another.

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A growing young.

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Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar con…

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of Leaf

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The series of changes an organism goes through from birth to death

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The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural…

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A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.

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Cutting of the teeth; dentition.

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Alt. of Palingenesy

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The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

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One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

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Same as Polyp.

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The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.

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Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.

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A germinating, or budding.

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The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, a…

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The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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of Root

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of Sprout

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The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of trut…

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of Teeth

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A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.

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The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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of Widen

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of Begin

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The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which…

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The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…

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The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

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The goddess of flowers and spring.

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The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.

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Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially,…

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To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

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Quality or state of being unwell.

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The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.

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Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.

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Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

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Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

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The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…

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The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.

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of Grow

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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

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The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

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Alt. of Ontogeny

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The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in…

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That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

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The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

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Failure or lack of development.

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Failure or lack of development.

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