[UP- 2.]
1. The process or fact of growing up; origination, development.
1844. S. Wilberforce, Hist. Prot. Episc. Ch. Amer., i. 2. The up-growth of such a body amongst institutions so unlike our own.
1869. A. W. Haddan, Apost. Succession, v. 104. The speedy upgrowth of contentions and schisms.
2. That which has grown up; a result of growth or development.
1845. Trench, Huls. Lect., ii. 26. The parts of it being the upgrowth of a single age.
1873. Manning, Serm. Eccl. Subj., III. p. lxxxiv. The International is a new creation or upgrowth from beneath.
b. spec. A raised growth or process.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 11. The sixth and seventh [lateral processes] have prominent upgrowths.
1893. Bower, in Phil. Trans., B. CLXXXV. 504. Evidence of the origin of upgrowths (sporangiophores) which would raise the sporangia beyond the surface.