growing

adj 1: increasing in size or degree or amount; "her growing

popularity"; "growing evidence of a world depression";

"a growing city"; "growing businesses"

2: having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life;

"flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing

boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population"

[syn: {flourishing}, {thriving}]

3: relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for

corn"; "good growing weather"

n : 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" [syn: {growth}, {maturation}, {development},

{ontogeny}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}]