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Definition of Growing
1. Adjective. Relating to or suitable for growth. "Good growing weather"
2. Noun. (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"
Specialized synonyms: Culture, Amelogenesis, Angiogenesis, Apposition, Auxesis, Anthesis, Blossoming, Efflorescence, Florescence, Flowering, Inflorescence, Caenogenesis, Cainogenesis, Cenogenesis, Kainogenesis, Kenogenesis, Cohesion, Cultivation, Cytogenesis, Cytogeny, Foliation, Leafing, Fructification, Gametogenesis, Germination, Sprouting, Habit, Infructescence, Intussusception, Juvenescence, Life Cycle, Masculinisation, Masculinization, Virilisation, Virilization, Morphogenesis, Myelinisation, Myelinization, Neurogenesis, Palingenesis, Recapitulation, Proliferation, Psychogenesis, Psychogenesis, Psychomotor Development, Psychosexual Development, Rooting, Suppression, Dentition, Odontiasis, Teething, Teratogenesis, Vegetation
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Terms within: Gastrulation
Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process
Examples of category: Isometry
Derivative terms: Develop, Develop, Developmental, Grow, Grow, Grow, Grow, Grow, Grow, Maturate, Maturational, Mature, Ontogenetic, Ontogenetic
Antonyms: Nondevelopment
3. Noun. (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state.
Definition of Growing
1. Verb. (present participle of grow) ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb ''to grow''. ¹
3. Adjective. That grows. ¹
4. Adjective. Connected with growing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Growing
1. grow [v] - See also: grow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Growing
Literary usage of Growing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by Oregon Board of Horticulture (1905)
"Prune-growing in the Northwest has since become an industry of many thousand ...
The whole history of northwestern fruit-growing is a record of obstacles ..."
2. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1902)
"1 believe in growing peaches in Massachusetts myself but do not believe in it
for the majority, and although I am ready to put money into it if I can look ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"... growing in from all sides meets and fuses above the embryo, which now lies in
a cavity roofed in by an internal layer of ectoderm and an outer of meso- ..."
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