growing

growth; increase

Noun

  1. growth; increase
    • Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger. - 1852, Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West:
  2. The raising of plants.
    • The growing season here begins in March.

Forms

growings

Derived

coffeegrowing evergrowing fastgrowing fruitgrowing fruit-growing growingly growing of the moon growing pains growing season ingrowing nongrowing olivegrowing peagrowing rice growing silkgrowing vine-growing winegrowing woolgrowing

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of grow