growth

[1]	development , growing , maturation , evolution , evolvement , development , ontogeny , cultivation , nurturing , ontogenesis , increase , expansion , broadening , extension , enlargement , spread , proliferation , flowering
[2]	vegetation , crop
[3]	advance , increase , increment , advancement , success , improvement , expansion , rise , progress
[4]	wen , excrescence , wart , lump , tumour , swelling , intumescence
[5]	emergence , outgrowth