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"

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" [syn: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]

2 (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ

Verb

growing

1. present participle of grow

Translations

• Spanish: creciendo

Noun

1. The action of the verb to grow.

Translations

• Spanish: crecimiento

Adjective

1. That grows or grow.

   Milk is good for growing children.

2. Connected with growing

   Growing season here begins in March.

Translations

• Dutch: groeiend
• Finnish: kasvava
• Spanish: creciente

Growing can refer to:

• Growth
• Growing (band), a noise band from Olympia, Washington
• Growing, a 2007 album by the instrumental rock band Sleeping People

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