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"
• 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"