Noun

• S: (n) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis ((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"
• S: (n) growth (a progression from simpler to more complex forms) "the growth of culture"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) development, evolution (a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)) "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
• S: (n) process, physical process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states) "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
• S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) increase, increment, growth (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important) "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
• S: (n) growth (vegetation that has grown) "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass"
• S: (n) emergence, outgrowth, growth (the gradual beginning or coming forth) "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
• S: (n) growth ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))
• S: (n) growth (something grown or growing) "a growth of hair"