growing

increasing in size or degree or amount

• “her growing popularity”
• “growing evidence of a world depression”
• “a growing city”
• “growing businesses”

having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life

• “flourishing crops”
• “flourishing chicks”
• “a growing boy”
• “fast-growing weeds”
• “a thriving deer population”

relating to or suitable for growth

• “the growing season for corn”
• “good growing weather”

(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”

(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state