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growing n. [
growth, 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"
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growing a. relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for corn"; "good growing weather"
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growing n. (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
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