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noun(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
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growing culture habit development growth rooting vegetation blossoming suppression flowering cultivation proliferation teething cohesion intussusception sprouting maturation dentition florescence recapitulation germination leafing inflorescence morphogenesis ontogeny organic process biological process caenogenesis cainogenesis cenogenesis cytogenesis cytogeny efflorescence foliation fructification gametogenesis infructescence juvenescence kainogenesis kenogenesis life cycle masculinisation masculinization myelinisation myelinization neurogenesis odontiasis virilization angiogenesis anthesis apposition auxesis amelogenesis palingenesis psychogenesis psychomotor development psychosexual development teratogenesis virilisation ontogenetic