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Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

By endogenous growth.

Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

Hostile; inimical. [Obs.] They . . . every day grow more enemy to God. Jer. Taylor.

To strengthen; to grow strong. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

n atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.

A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo.

itions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle.

Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.

Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

h surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced.

Growing on, or close to, the ground.

A term applied to that phase of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly on its upper than on its under surface. See Hyponastic.

Growing upon, or inserted into, the leaf.

An air plant which grows on other plants, but does not derive its nourishment from them. See Air plant.

Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.

A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer.

A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.