primary growth

American  

noun

Botany.

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

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primary growth Scientific  

1. 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.

2. Compare secondary growth

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primary growth

Take Azure, Microsoft’s flagship cloud platform and primary growth engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Since then, Palantir’s commercial business has surpassed its government segment to become the company’s primary growth driver.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 4, 2026

"AI is and will continue to be one of our primary growth engines," CEO Eddie Wu said Thursday, noting that revenue from Alibaba's Cloud Intelligence Group was up 36 percent on-year in October-December.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

Chief Executive Julie Sweet has been a fierce advocate of the technology as a primary growth driver, actively pushing employees to learn how to use it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Secondary sarcoma is seldom met with in the lymph glands except when the primary growth is a lympho-sarcoma and is situated in the tonsil, thyreoid, or testicle.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

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