Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun auxesis

1 sense of auxesis

Sense 1
auxesis -- (growth from increase in cell size without cell division)
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")