Growth vs Germination - What's the difference?
growth | germination |
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
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, title= (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
(biology) Something that grows or has grown.
(pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
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As nouns the difference between growth and germination
is that growth is an increase in size, number, value, or strength while germination is the process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.growth
English
(wikipedia growth)Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Synonyms
* (increase in size) enlargement, expansion, increase, increment * (act of growing) development, maturation * (something that grows or has grown) vegetation * outgrowth, cancer, massAntonyms
* (increase in size) contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction * (act of growing) nondevelopmentDerived terms
* growth spurt * growth stock * overgrowth * undergrowthHyponyms
* tumorgermination
English
Noun
(en noun)- Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination .