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How to sign: act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
"he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development";
Categories: improvement
Within this category: advancement, broadening, elaboration, product development
How to sign: (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";
Similiar / Same: growth, growing, ontogeny, ontogenesis, maturation
Categories: biological process, organic process
Within this category: amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, blossoming, cenogenesis, cohesion, culture, cytogenesis, foliation, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinization, morphogenesis, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, proliferation, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation
