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noun Botany.

growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.

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How to use primary growth in a sentence

Scruff believes that sex is not the primary concern of users.
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He has picked pre-primary brawls with Christie, Perry, and Marco Rubio.
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“You try to always scratch where the itch is,” Huckabee said about his campaigning and rhetoric in the 2008 primary.
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Even then, most of us doubted he would show up and actually sign the papers allowing him to enter the 1992 New Hampshire primary.
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It was Dec. 20, 1991, the deadline for the New Hampshire primary.
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Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
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What the ear hears is the fundamental pitch only; the overtones harmonize with the primary or fundamental tone, and enrich it.
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Water itself is of course essential to the growth of every plant, but the benefits of Irrigation reach far beyond this.
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That—and no existing institution and no current issue—is the primary concern of the present age.
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Potatoes also are extensively planted, and I never saw a more vigorous growth.
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Scientific definitions for primary growth

primary growth

Growth in vascular plants resulting from the production of primary tissues by an apical meristem. The plant body grows lengthwise chiefly by the enlargement of cells produced by the apical meristem (rather than by cell division). Because they lack secondary tissues, most monocots and herbaceous plants grow solely by primary growth until they reach maturity, when growth stops. Compare secondary growth.