Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

growing

growing , noun

the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism.

growing , adjective

1.
increasing in intensity of some quality. [prenominal]
2.
increasing in size or amount; as, her growing popularity.
3.
increasing in size and maturity; -- of living things normally healthy and not fully matured.
4.
present participle of grow (definition 3); as, growing plants.