Growths Synonyms and Antonyms

(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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. parasites
  2. outgrowths
  3. swells
  4. rises
  5. lumps
  6. ontogeneses
  7. hikes
  8. amplifications
  9. increases
  10. buttons
  11. developments
  12. swellings
  13. upsurges
  14. surges
  15. enlargements
  16. prosperities
  17. fungi
  18. progresses
  19. cancers
  20. raises
  21. overgrowths
  22. moles
  23. ontogenies
  24. proliferations
  25. increments
  26. multiplications
  27. tumors
  28. augmentations
  29. extensions
  30. masses
  31. jumps
  32. expansions
  33. evolutions
  34. cultivations
  35. boosts
  36. advancements
  37. accretions
  38. emergences
The result of growing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. completions
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. increases
  2. increments
  3. developments
  4. extensions
  5. progresses
  6. evolutions
Antonyms:
  1. decreases
  2. failures
  3. reductions
  4. abatements
  5. atrophies
  6. decrements

Words Related to Growths

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Growths Sentence Examples

  • The lake is nowhere of great depth, and about midway numerous mud-banks, marshes, islands and dense growths of aqueous plants stretch across its surface.

  • The territories of the Gran Chaco, however, are covered with a characteristic tropical vegetation, in which the palm predominates, but intermingled south of the Bermejo with heavy growths of algarrobo, quebracho-colorado, urunday (Astronium fraxinifolium), lapacho (Tecoma curialis) and palosanto (Guayacum officinalis), all esteemed for hardness and fineness of grain.

  • P. alba suffers much from the ravages of wood-eating larvae, and also from fungoid growths, especially where the branches have been removed by pruning or accident.

  • Aphidesand may be easily penetrated by certain Fungi such as Peziza, Nectria; and when thus attacked, the repeated conflicts between the cambium and callus, on the one hand, trying to heal over the wound, and the insect or Fungus, on the other, destroying the new tissues as they are formed, results in irregular growths; the still uninjured cambium area goes on thickening the branch, the dead parts, of course, remain unthickened, and the portion in which the Fungus is at work may for the time being grow more rapidly.

  • A, Winged female; B, winged D, viviparous wingless female from in patches from old apple trees, where the insects live in the rough bark and form cankered growths both above and below ground.

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