upgrowth

upgrowth
/up"grohth'/, n.
1. the process of growing up; development: the upgrowth of nuclear science.
2. something that grows or has grown in an upward direction: Part of the pituitary gland is an upgrowth of the roof of the mouth.
[1835-45; UP- + GROWTH]

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