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That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.

The fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as Torula, etc.

The tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation.

rn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ.

he body of the parent, it finally becomes detached,and by a process of multiplication and growth gives rise to a mass of cells, which ultimately form a new individual like the parent. See Ovum. -- Germ gland. (Anat.) See Gonad. -- Germ stock (Zoöl.), a special process on which buds are developed in certain animals. S…

The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. Germination apparatus, an apparatus for malting grain.

gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. Milton.

n or gradation; slowness. The gradualness of this movement. M. Arnold. The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer. H. Drummond.

ing sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. Shak.

See Growthead.

Same as Growthead. Beau. & Fl.

preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope. -- Grown over, covered with a growth. -- To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from. These wars have grown out of commerci…

Capable of growth.

A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

A salmon in its fifth year of growth. [Prov. Eng.]

th; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. Milton Heath cock (Zoöl.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). -- Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens), growing on dry heaths.…

Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant.

A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon.

stop; - - often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going. Them that were entering in ye hindered. Luke xi. 52. I hinder you too long. Shak.