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) culture ((biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)) "the culture of cells in a Petri dish"
S: (n) cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis (introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution))
S: (n) cohesion ((botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals))
S: (n) cultivation (the process of fostering the growth of something) "the cultivation of bees for honey"
S: (n) palingenesis, recapitulation (emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species)
S: (n) psychosexual development ((psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage)
S: (n) rooting (the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow)