morphogenesis

English Thesaurus

1. differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism) (noun.process)

hypernym	:	development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny,
definition	:	(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level (noun.process)

domain category	:	being, organism,
definition	:	a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently (noun.tops)