regrowth

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ growth.

Noun

regrowth (usually uncountable, plural regrowths)

  1. That which has been regrown after removal.
    After the forest fire, much of the regrowth consisted of invasive non-native plant species.
    • 2024 February 15, Simon Usborne, “From bone smashing to chin extensions: how ‘looksmaxxing’ is reshaping young men’s faces”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 23 August 2024:
      Shami says older adults don’t get looksmaxxing. There has been much hand-wringing in the media over “bone smashing”, for example, an extreme technique that involves taking a hammer to your face to promote more “manly” regrowth when the bones repair, but little evidence that anyone is actually doing it.
  2. The process of regrowing.
    The eventual regrowth of the forest to its primeval state will take centuries, if not millennia.

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