growth

生长；发育；成长

增长；增大；发展

种植；栽培

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growth

生长, 种植, 栽培, 发育, 等比级数

growth

1. (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"

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2. a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture"

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3. 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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4. vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"

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5. the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"

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

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7. something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"

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