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RELATED WORDS : growing pains growing season

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun growing has 2 senses

• growing(n = noun.process) development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny - (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"
has particulars: culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation
has parts: gastrulation
is a kind of biological process, organic process
Derived forms verb grow₃, verb grow₄, verb grow₅

• growing(n = noun.process) Array - (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state; Array
is a kind of production
has particulars: epitaxy

Adjective growing has 1 sense

• growing(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for corn"; "good growing weather"

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THESAURUS

growing

architecture, assembly, blooming, blossoming, budding, building, burgeoning, callow, casting, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crescendoing, crescent, cultivation, developed, devising, dewy, elaboration, erection, expanding, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, florescent, flourishing, flowering, formation, forming, formulation, framing, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, green, green thumb, grown, grown-up, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hypertrophied, immature, impubic, increasing, incremental, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, intensifying, juicy, lengthening, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, mature, milling, mining, minor, molding, multiplying, naive, new-fledged, on the increase, overdeveloped, overgrown, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, proliferating, raising, raw, rearing, refining, ripening, sappy, shaping, smelting, snowballing, spreading, sprouting, swelling, tender, thriving, tightening, unadult, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal, waxing, workmanship

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