Synonyms of the word

leafing

• v. present participle of leaf.
• n. The act of one who leafs through something.

development

• n. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
• n. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is…
• n. (countable) Something which has developed.
• n. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings, real…
• n. (real estate, uncountable) The building of a real estate development.
• n. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
• n. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
• n. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.

foliation

• n. (botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
• n. (publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
• n. (botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
• n. The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
• n. The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
• n. The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of…
• n. (geology) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of being divided into plates or layers, due…
• n. (topology) A set of submanifolds of a given manifold, each of which is of lower dimension than it, but…

growing

• v. present participle of grow.
• n. growth; increase.
• n. (attributive) Connected with growing.
• adj. That grows.

growth

• n. An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
• n. (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
• n. (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
• n. (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

maturation

• n. The process of becoming mature.
• n. (biology) The process of differentiation that produces the adult form of an organism.

ontogenesis

• n. the arising or development of an individual organism.

ontogeny

• n. The development of an individual organism.