Dictionary Check: growth

"growth" is a valid word!

Scrabble 13 points
Words with Friends 13 points

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"
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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"
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noun

(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

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