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grows up

vb. (en-third-person singulargrow up)

Usage examples of "grows up".

Here man appears, both in body and soul, as a sum of inherited characteristics, of characteristics, that is to say, which have been passed on by way of sexual propagation and gradually emerge into full manifestation as the individual grows up.

And I'll bank my pay and when Little Sissy grows up, I'll put her in the best college there is.

The stigma grows up through the tube formed by the anthers, pushing the pollen before it, and insects smearing themselves with this pollen carry it to the stigmas of other flowers already expanded, thus insuring cross-fertilization.

The most favourable situation seems to be a thin scattered wood of Oaks, in the intervals of which it grows up at once.

But it may be argued in this and other such cases that, as the hypocotyl grows up through the soil, the seed will almost certainly be tilted to one side.

Every boy in Tennessee grows up horse-trading or watching horse trades, and no Red Indian was going to outswap me.

When he grows up, able to speak with them, then there will be two of us.

He will need a mate when he grows up, and Ura is just right for him.

Put it the other way, doesn't everyone of your family who grows up here go to college on the mainland a little bit stronger because of what the old families did for the islands?

A young and bold Chewbacca grows up on Kashyyyk, hanging out with friends, tinkering with machinery and spaceships.