one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth | the gradual beginning or coming forth |
a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane | vegetation that has grown |
| something grown or growing |
| (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 |
| a progression from simpler to more complex forms |
| a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important |
| (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |