Dictionary Check: growth
"growth" is a valid word!
Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
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
Example:
"he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
noun
a progression from simpler to more complex forms
Example:
"the growth of culture"
noun
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
Example:
"the increase in unemployment"
noun
vegetation that has grown
Example:
"a growth of trees"
noun
the gradual beginning or coming forth
Example:
"figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
noun
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
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