GROWING SEASON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does growing season mean? 

• GROWING SEASON (noun)
  The noun GROWING SEASON has 1 sense:

1. the season during which a crop grows best

  Familiarity information: GROWING SEASON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROWING SEASON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The season during which a crop grows best

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("growing season" is a kind of...):

season (a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field)

 Context examples 

One of the fastest-growing organisms on Earth, giant kelp can grow 2 feet a day and reach almost 150 feet in length — in one growing season.

(Giant kelp switches diet when key nutrient becomes scarce, National Science Foundation)

Reconstructions of Earth's climate record have relied largely on summer conditions, charting fluctuations through vegetation-based samples, such as tree ring width, pollen and organisms that thrive in the warmer growing season.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)

They found what they were looking for when they examined various milestones throughout the growing season, such as when the trees leafed out in spring and when they reached peak greenness.

(NASA Satellite Images Uncover Underground Forest Fungi, NASA)

Dense, often dark, and heavily lignified wood produced in the annual ring during the later part of the growing season, characterized by small, thick-walled cells.

(Latewood, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The portion of the annual ring produced early in the growing season, characterized by large, thin-walled cells.

(Earlywood, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

El Niño shifts the growing season around the tropics, causes winter drought in Africa and South America, and changes the timing of monsoon rainfalls in Asia.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

So by measuring the greenness of the mule deer habitat, scientists were able to mark the beginning and peak of the plant growing season – and the fawning season.

(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)

A series of experiments studied the effectiveness of this quick and inexpensive approach that can tell a farmer prior to the growing season how much nitrogen will be available by testing a soil sample.

(New Test Can Determine Nitrogen Levels in Soil, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

There was a charming lawn, there were clusters of trees, and there were perspective walks that I could just distinguish in the dark, arched over with trellis-work, on which shrubs and flowers grew in the growing season.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)