growing point

American  

noun

Botany.

1. the undifferentiated end of a root, shoot, or vegetative axis consisting of a single cell or group of cells that divide to form primary meristematic tissue.

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Etymology

Origin of growing point

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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growing point

That’s a growing point of emphasis with bill payers like insurers and employers.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

Foreign journalists in China have become a growing point of tension in recent years.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2020

But for bigger bulbs, do them a favor and try to set them with the growing point or nose upward.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2020

Standards are a growing point of conflict for the global internet, and they have been for some time.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2020

It will be noticed that the general cosmological setting was first reconstructed and that the growing point passed thence to the center, the nature and destiny of man.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood