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aftergrowth

noun

Etymology

From after- + growth.

  1. derived from *gʰreh₁-✻ — “to grow, become green”
  2. inherited from *grōaną✻ — “to grow, grow green”
  3. inherited from *grōan✻
  4. inherited from grōwan — “to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”
  5. inherited from growen
  6. suffixed as growth — “grow + th”
  7. prefixed as aftergrowth — “after + growth”

Definitions

  1. A second growth, seen in plants like crops or timber after harvesting.

  2. Any abstraction of the above.

    • If we suppose that the Greek myth started with a single personification, the aftergrowth of a second personification may perhaps be explained as follows.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aftergrowth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA