It is not wrong to refer to the USA as âAmerica,â nor is it wrong to refer to the people of the USA as âAmericans.â For one thing, we are the only country that actually has the word âAmericaâ in our name.
verb (used without object), grew, grown, growing. 1. to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance. 2. to form and increase in size by a process of inorganic accretion, as by crystallization.
An irreversible increase in the size of the plant. As plants, like other organisms, are made up of cells, growth involves an increase in cell numbers by cell division and an increase in cell size. Cell division itself is not growth, as each new cell is exactly half the size of the cell from which it was formed.