growing

growing (http://definr.com/growing)

     adj 1: increasing in size or degree or amount; "her growing
            popularity"; "growing evidence of a world depression";
            "a growing city"; "growing businesses"
     2: having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life;
        "flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing
        boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population"
        [syn: flourishing, thriving]
     3: relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for
        corn"; "good growing weather"
     n 1: 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" [syn: growth, maturation, development,
           ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]
     2: (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by
        slow crystallization from the molten state