growing

growing
    adj 1: relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season
           for corn"; "good growing weather"
    n 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}, {growing},
         {maturation}, {development}, {ontogeny}, {ontogenesis}]
         [ant: {nondevelopment}]
    2: (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by
       slow crystallization from the molten state
    

growing \growing\ n.
   the sequence of events involved in the development of an
   organism.

   Syn: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

growing \growing\ adj.
   1. increasing in intensity of some quality. [prenominal]

   Syn: increasing(prenominal), incremental.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. increasing in size or amount; as, her growing popularity.
      [WordNet 1.5]

   3. increasing in size and maturity; -- of living things
      normally healthy and not fully matured.

   Syn: flourishing, thriving.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   4. p. pr. of {grow} (definition 3); as, growing plants.
      [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
    

104 Moby Thesaurus words for "growing":
      architecture, assembly, blooming, blossoming, budding, building,
      burgeoning, callow, casting, composition, construction, conversion,
      crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crescendoing, crescent,
      cultivation, developed, devising, dewy, elaboration, erection,
      expanding, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, florescent,
      flourishing, flowering, formation, forming, formulation, framing,
      full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, green, green thumb,
      grown, grown-up, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hypertrophied,
      immature, impubic, increasing, incremental, inexperienced,
      ingenuous, innocent, intact, intensifying, juicy, lengthening,
      machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, mature, milling,
      mining, minor, molding, multiplying, naive, new-fledged,
      on the increase, overdeveloped, overgrown, prefabrication,
      preparation, processing, producing, proliferating, raising, raw,
      rearing, refining, ripening, sappy, shaping, smelting, snowballing,
      spreading, sprouting, swelling, tender, thriving, tightening,
      unadult, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unlicked,
      unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal, waxing,
      workmanship