Growing

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Promoting or encouraging growth, as of plants: as, growing weather.
  • noun. The gradual increment of animal or vegetable bodies; increase in bulk, extent, amount, value, etc.; augmentation; enlargement.
  • noun. That which has grown; growth.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism.
  • adjective. increasing in intensity of some quality.
  • adjective. increasing in size or amount.
  • adjective. increasing in size and maturity; -- of living things normally healthy and not fully matured.
  • adjective. p. pr. of grow (definition 3).
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  • verb. Present participle of grow.
  • noun. The action of the verb to grow.
  • adjective. That grows.
  • adjective. Connected with growing
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (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
  • noun. (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
  • adjective. relating to or suitable for growth
  • Word Usage
    "But marriage is proving an increasingly profitable ­enterprise for a growing number of ­American men who earn less than a ­growing number of better educated spouses."
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