Word Finder - grow

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To become larger, to increase in magnitude.

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Children grow quickly.

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To appear or sprout.

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A long tail began to grow from his backside.

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To develop, to mature.

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As I grew throughout adolescence, I came to appreciate many things about human nature.

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To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.

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Have you ever grown your hair before?

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To assume a condition or quality over time.

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The boy grew wise as he matured.

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To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

They all grow up.

I want to grow old with him.

You'll grow into it.

She will grow with love and care.

We wouldn't grow under ground, I'm sure.

You need to grow up.

He stepped back beside her, and she soon heard one of the helicopters grow nearer.

The pace of innovation and accomplishment is already fast but will grow even faster.

Deidre was surprised to feel her body grow warm from the inside out.

He had an idea of how his father felt, fearing he would have to watch his little boy grow and not being able to be the provider.

You are only a very little boy, and you will learn a great deal as you grow bigger.

Only low brush could grow in so small a space... no trees to prevent a vehicle from plunging into the forested mountain ranges below and beyond.

Some day Michael would grow up and realize there was something more in life than conquest.

Sometimes I'm afraid he'll grow tired of this - and me.

But it took a good many years for them to grow as large and fine as they are now.

Grow wild according to thy nature, like these sedges and brakes, which will never become English bay.

If he returned her affection, would she grow tired of him?

Kiera felt her cheeks grow red.

Sponges grow in great variety.

As the poorest nations become wealthier, they too will grow less and less inclined toward war.

The doctors say he may grow out of it in time.

Orange, olive, cypress and arbutus trees grow throughout the island, which, however, is too dry to have any profusion of vegetation.

It is a straight-growing tree, with grey bark and whorls of horizontal branches giving a cylindro-conical outline; the leaves are short, rigid and glaucous; the cones, oblong and rather pointing upwards, grow only near the top of the tree, and ripen in the second autumn; the seeds are oily like those of P. Pinea, and are eaten both on the Alps and by the inhabitants of Siberia; a fine oil is expressed from them which is used both for food and in lamps, but, like that of the Italian pine, it soon turns rancid.

The young oysters grow rapidly in these cases, and have to be thinned out as they grow larger.

Barcelona can be divided into three climatic zones; a temperate one near the sea, where even palm and orange trees grow; a colder one in the valleys and plains, more inland; and a colder still among the mountains, where not a few peaks are snow-clad for a great part of the year.

Science would solve everything, prosperity would grow indefinitely, and people would thrive.

The hilly regions of Limousin, Prigord and the Cvennes are the home of the chestnut, which in some places is still a staple food; walnuts grow on the lower levels of the central plateau and in lower Dauphin and Provence, figs and almonds in Provence, oranges and citrons on the Mediterranean coast, apricots in central France, the olive in Provcnce and the lower valleys of the Rhneand Durancc. Truffles arc found under Silk Cocoons.

Enough of the rocky surface is covered with a thin coating of soil to enable the natives to grow yams, taro, bananas, &c., for their support; cotton thrives well, and has even been exported in small quantities, but there is no space available for its cultivation on any considerable scale.

The monitor, or forktongued lizard, which burrows in the earth, climbs and swims, is said to grow to a length of 8 to 9 f t.

The conifers are allowed to grow to a height of from 3 to 5 ft.

Both these oaks grow well in British plantations, where their bright autumn foliage, though seldom so decided in tint as in their native woods, gives them a certain picturesque value.

The tree in England is scarcely hardy, though it will grow freely in some sheltered places.

Adoption was very common, especially where the father (or mother) was childless or had seen all his children grow up and marry away.

Calderai, who may be compared to the Black Hundreds of modern Russia, the revolutionary spirit continued to grow, but it was not at first anti-dynastic. The granting of the Spanish constitution of 1820 proved the signal for the beginning of the Italian.

So far as a coherent body of theistic doctrine exists, it did not grow out of the great systems, but out of the lesser men who stood nearer to the apprehension of practical citizens.

In " Some Causes of Belief," he tries, standing outside the psychological process, to show how beliefs grow up under every kind of influence except that of genuine evidence.

A, colony of but grow in all planes Lar;B and C, young and adult medusae.

Normally the medusae are liberated in quite an immature state; they swim away, feed, grow and become adult mature el individuals.

The daughter-individuals grow, form the full number of twenty-four tentacles and divide again.

In the bulky forms colorless branches frequently grow out from some of the cortical cells, and, pushing among the already-formed threads in a longitudinal direction, serve to strengthen the thallus by weaving its original threads together.

In addition to the cell types described, it is a very common occurrence in these bulky forms for rhizoid-like branches of the cells to grow out, mostly from the cells at the periphery of the medulla, and grow down between the cells, strengthening the whole tissue, as in the Rhodophyceae.

The root hairs grow out from the cells of the piliferous layer immediately behind the elongating tegion.

While they are quite capable of taking up nitrates from the soil where and so long as these are present, they can grow and thrive in soil which contains no combined nitrogen at all, deriving their supplies of this element in these cases from the air.

The young roots grow vertically downwards, the young stems vertically upwards.

The next change observable after some hours is that the untouched cells below the cut grow larger, push tip the dead surface, and divide by walls tangential to it, with the formation of tabloid cork-cells.

Geographical FactorsGeographical position determines the particular species of plants which grow in any particular locality.

Psychrophytes.These include the plants which grow on the lv ild soils of subniveal and polar districts.

Halo phytes.These are plants which grow on saline soils.

Lithophytes.These are plants which grow on true rock, it not on the loose soil covering rock, even though this may W

Xerophytes.Plants which grow in very dry soils; e.g., most hens, Ammophila (Psamma) arenaria, Elymus arenarius, Anasis aretioides, Zilla macro ptera, Sedum acre, Bupleurum spinosum, rtemisia herba-alba, Zollikofferia arborescens.