Growth or development that occurs after an initial growth period or after a major life stage, such as growth in a plant after initial maturation.
Compound of 'after' (Old English 'æfter') and 'growth' (Old English 'growan', from Proto-Germanic 'gro-', meaning 'to grow'). Used in botany and developmental biology.
Trees sometimes experience an aftergrowth in the fall when warm weather returns after a frost—producing tender new leaves that rarely survive the next freeze, which is why late spring frosts devastate fruit trees.
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