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AUXESIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does auxesis mean?

• AUXESIS (noun)
The noun AUXESIS has 1 sense:

1. growth from increase in cell size without cell division

Familiarity information: AUXESIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AUXESIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Growth from increase in cell size without cell division

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("auxesis" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((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)

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