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oint of vegetation] (Bot.), the terminal cell of a stem, or of a leaf bud, from which new growth originates.

Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant. The rampant stalk is of unusual altitude. I. Taylor.

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds. And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. Gen. xli. 5.

With rank or vigorous growth; luxuriantly; hence, coarsely; grossly; as, weeds grow rankly.

Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement.

One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.

; residual. That little hope that is remanent hath its degree according to the infancy or growth of the habit. Jer. Taylor. Remanent magnetism (Physics), magnetism which remains in a body that has little coercive force after the magnetizing force is withdrawn, as soft iron; -- called also residual magnetism.…

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

Rank in growth. [Prov.Eng.]

The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment…

The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly. if the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves. Mortimer.

-- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.

Producing or promoting the growth of flesh. [R.] -- n.

Wild growth, as of plants. Shak.

A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees. [Spelt also savannah.] Savannahs are clear pieces land without woods. Dampier. Savanna flower (Bot.), a West Indian name for several climbing apocyneous plants of the g…

In certain Sporozoa, a cell formed by the growth of a sporozoite or merozoite (in a cell or corpuscle of the host) which segment by superficial cleavage, without encystment or conjugation, into merozoites.

Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.

To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.