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Upgrowth   Listen
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Upgrowth  n.  The process or result of growing up; progress; development. "The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... mass gradually works down toward the floor of the basin. At the same time the lower part of the sheet, decaying, contributes a shower of soft peat mud to the floor of the lake. In this way, growing at its edge, deepening, and contributing to an upgrowth from the bottom, a few centuries may serve entirely to fill a deep basin with peaty accumulation. In general, however, the surface of the bog closes over the lake before the accumulation has completely filled the shoreward portions of the ...
— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler



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