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growth
growing
maturation
development
ontogeny
ontogenesis
Definition: (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"
Definition: the generation and development of an individual organism by the characteristic process of ontogeny associated with its species.