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ˈupgrowth
[up- 2.]
1. The process or fact of growing up; origination, development.
1844S. Wilberforce Hist. Prot. Episc. Ch. Amer. i. 2 The up-growth of such a body amongst institutions so unlike our own. 1869A. W. Haddan Apost. Succession v. 104 The speedy upgrowth..of contentions and schisms.
2. That which has grown up; a result of growth or development.
1845Trench Huls. Lect. ii. 26 The parts of it being the upgrowth of a single age. 1873Manning Serm. Eccl. Subj. III. p. lxxxiv, The International is a new creation or upgrowth from beneath.
b. spec. A raised growth or process.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life 11 The..sixth and seventh [lateral processes] have prominent upgrowths. 1893Bower in Phil. Trans. B. CLXXXV. 504 Evidence..of the origin of upgrowths (sporangiophores) which would raise the sporangia beyond the surface. |