- growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis - (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"
--1 is a kind of organic process, biological process
--1 has parts: gastrulation
--1 has particulars:Derived forms: verb grow3, verb grow4, verb grow5 - growth - a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"
--2 is a kind of development, evolution
Derived form: verb grow5 - increase, increment, growth - a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
--3 is a kind of process
--3 has particulars:accession; accretion, accumulation; accretion; accretion; accretion; multiplication; population growth; proliferation; pullulation; relaxation; widening, broadening Derived form: verb grow2 - growth - vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"
--4 is a kind of vegetation, flora
Derived form: verb grow7 - emergence, outgrowth, growth - the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
--5 is a kind of beginning
--5 has particulars: riseDerived forms: verb grow6, verb grow1 - growth - (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
--6 is a kind of illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
--6 has particulars:excrescence; exostosis; polyp, polypus; peduncle; tumor, tumour, neoplasm; hamartoma - growth - something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"
--7 is a kind of object, physical object
--7 has particulars: ingrowth - growth - something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"