Maturation: alternatives and connections

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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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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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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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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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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Cutting of the teeth; dentition.

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Alt. of Palingenesy

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

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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…

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To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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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 generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

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To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

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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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of Fester

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of Grow

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The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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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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of Ripen

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The act or process of suppurating.

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