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vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" something grown or growing; "a growth of hair" (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" a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture" (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" |
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