growing

Noun · Adjective

Synonyms: growth maturation development ontogeny ontogenesis

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

(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”Synonyms: growth maturation development ontogeny ontogenesis
(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

Adjective (1)

relating to or suitable for growth“the growing season for corn”“good growing weather”

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Grow \Grow\ (gr[=o]), v. i. [imp. Grew (gr[udd]); p. p. Grown (gr[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Growing.] [AS. gr[=o]wan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. gr[=o]a, Dan. groe, Sw. gro. Cf. Green, Grass.]

1.To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. [1913 Webster]

2.To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. [1913 Webster]

Winter began to grow fast on.— Knolles.[1913 Webster]

Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries. [1913 Webster]

Where law faileth, error groweth.— Gower.[1913 Webster]

4.To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale. [1913 Webster]

For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary.— Byron.[1913 Webster]

5.To become attached or fixed; to adhere. [1913 Webster]

Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Growing cell, or Growing slide, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope.

Grown over, covered with a growth.

To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from. [1913 Webster]

These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.— A. Hamilton.

To grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children.

To grow together, to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. --Howells.

Syn: To become; increase; enlarge; augment; improve; expand; extend. [1913 Webster]

growing \growing\ n. the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism.

Syn: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis. [WordNet 1.5]

growing \growing\ adj.

1.increasing in intensity of some quality. [prenominal]

Syn: increasing(prenominal), incremental. [WordNet 1.5]

2.increasing in size or amount; as, her growing popularity. [WordNet 1.5]

3.increasing in size and maturity; -- of living things normally healthy and not fully matured.

Syn: flourishing, thriving. [WordNet 1.5]

4.p. pr. of grow (definition 3); as, growing plants. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]