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indeterminate growth

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indeterminate growth [‚in·də′tərm·ə·nət ′grōth]
(botany)
Growth of a plant in which the axis is not limited by development of a reproductive structure, and therefore growth continues indefinitely.


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The borage plant has an indeterminate growth habit, which may lead to prolific spreading.
The inverse-logistic model avoids the disadvantageous assumptions of either rapid or slow growth for small and juvenile individuals implied by the yon Bertalanffy and Gompertz growth models, respectively, and allows for indeterminate growth where necessary.
1B and 2), which may be ascribed to indeterminate growth for adults of all sizes or to dispersion of final adult urchin sizes (Sainsbury, 1980).
 
 
 
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