= monstrosity, n. (in various senses).

An animal or plant, or (occasionally) an organ or part, that is abnormally developed or grossly malformed. Also: an instance of abnormal…

The process of growing by organic enlargement; continued and esp. gradual growth. Also: the amount accreted in this manner. In physical contexts.

A distorted or abortive growth.

= monstrousness, n.

A distorted or abortive growth. Also as a mass noun. Cf. misgrowth, n.

Homonomous condition. spec. in Biology (see homonomous, adj.).

Failure of development, or incomplete development, of a part of the body.

Physiology and Pathology. Enlargement of a part or organ of an animal or plant, produced by excessive nutrition; excessive growth or development…

Biology, Plant Physiology. (See quots.)

Growth that occurs over or upon something; an instance of this; (also concrete) that which has grown over or upon something, an accretion. Also figur…

The development or presence of a neoplasm; the process by which a neoplasm, or a specific type of neoplasm, arises. Also: an instance of this; a…

concrete. That which grows inwards; a formation due to growth in an inward direction. (Opposed to outgrowth.)

Biology. Coalescence or growing together of cells, organs, etc.; the coalescence of two individual organisms of low type in generation.

Organic growth in which the new substance is exactly like that from which it proceeds; (more widely) accretion.

(a) regeneration or renewed formation of a previously formed substance, tissue, cell type, structure, etc.; (b) the formation of a new type, form…

The tendency of an organism to grow symmetrically in a lateral or horizontal plane (so that the effect of gravity is balanced).

Physiology and Biology. Abnormal development in size. Also spec. (see quot. 1885).

= geomalism, n.

Growth of a plant which is due to an increase in the number of cells rather than to cell expansion.