Ageing
Growing
Growing noun - (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.
Ageing and growing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ageing" instead the word "Growing" as a noun or an adjective.
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Flikker sheds her lower wings at one stage, this apparently being a mark of ageing or growing up.
Source: Our Fairies Are Different -
Growing Up Sucks: Although Oskar initially throws himself down the stairs to stop himself ageing, he forces himself to start again in his twenties.
Source: Literature / The Tin Drum -
Jasper is an ageing Granola Guy, living in the woods naturally with his wife, growing a new immensely popular variety of pot that has a strawberry flavor.
Source: Film / Children of Men
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