growth
英 [gr??θ]
美[ɡroθ]
- n. 增長(zhǎng)；發(fā)展；生長(zhǎng)；種植
英英釋意
- 1. (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"
- 2. a progression from simpler to more complex forms;
- "the growth of culture"
- 3. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important;
- "the increase in unemployment"
- "the growth of population"
- 4. vegetation that has grown;
- "a growth of trees"
- "the only growth was some salt grass"
- 5. the gradual beginning or coming forth;
- "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"
- 6. (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
- 7. something grown or growing;
- "a growth of hair"
