Search the Dictionary

nd the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. P. Henderson.

To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments. Chaucer. Nourished up in the words of faith. 1 Tim. iv. 6.

Promoting growth; nutritious,

The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.

One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. "Fair Padua, nursery of arts." Shak. Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven. J. M. Mason.

Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth. -- n.

That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment. The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. South.

hole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.

Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri"tious*ly, adv. -- Nu*tri"tious*ness, n.

A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings. [U.S.] Cooper.

The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.

The formation or growth of bone.

Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.] "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.

To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. The green . . . is rough and overgrown. Sir W. Scott.

Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

cal and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.

Having or bearing a palm or palms. Paimed deer (Zoöl.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See lst Palm, 4.

An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.

A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.