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groveller
  • n  someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect
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grover cleveland
  • n  22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908)
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groves
  • n  United States general who served as military director of the atomic bomb project (1896-1970)
  • n  a small growth of trees without underbrush
  • n  garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
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grower
  • n  someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
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growing pains
  • n  pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth
  • n  emotional distress arising during adolescence
  • n  problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)
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growl
  • n  the sound of growling (as made by animals)
  • v  to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
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growler
  • n  a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl
  • n  a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping
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growling
  • n  a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal)
  • n  the sound of growling (as made by animals)
  • v  to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
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growth
  • n  (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
  • n  a progression from simpler to more complex forms
    the growth of culture
  • n  a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
    the growth of population
  • n  vegetation that has grown
    a growth of trees
    the only growth was some salt grass
  • n  the gradual beginning or coming forth
  • n  (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
  • n  something grown or growing
    a growth of hair
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growth-onset diabetes
  • n  severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis; diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease
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growth factor
  • n  a protein that is involved in cell differentiation and growth
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growth hormone
  • n  a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans
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growth hormone-releasing factor
  • n  a releasing factor that accelerates the secretion of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary body
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