(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 | inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life |
coming to full development; becoming mature | an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) |
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | all the plant life in a particular region or period |
| the process of growth in plants |