(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 | the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves |
coming to full development; becoming mature | the work of coating glass with metal foil |
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament |
| (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock |
| (botany) the process of forming leaves |