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[celamity]

I am looking for an English word that describes the growth of a plant.

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[bradamant.livejournal.com]

Do you mean a precise term like "germination" or some poetic description?

[celamity.livejournal.com]

Both?

[bradamant.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Still thinking. Is it a particular sort of growth?

[celamity.livejournal.com]

The thing plants do where they unfurl their leaves, their stems get longer, they grow new shoots, etc etc etc. Hubby says there's no one word for it (heck, I can't even really imagine one in Norwegian). Germination is kind of the stage before the word I'd want.

[bradamant.livejournal.com]

I can't really think of one either. Here (http://hcs.osu.edu/hcs300/devel1.htm) is a page on plant development that just talks about "growth" a lot.

[flamingcat.livejournal.com]

Um... bloom? Blossom? Mature?

[koinonia.livejournal.com]

Ripen?

[aceliwen.livejournal.com]

sprout!