proliferation

In zoology, the origination and development of generative zoöids, as in the formation of medusa-buds (planoblasts or hedrioblasts) by a polyp. See planoblast.

In botany, same as prolification.

Increase in size by reproduction of the primary elements.

The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.

The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.

The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.

The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.

The result of building up; buildup, accretion.

The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.

growth by the rapid multiplication of parts