A slow or retarded rate of growth in an organism or its parts.
From Greek 'bradys' (slow) + 'auxesis' (growth), literally 'slow growth'; the term is used in biology and developmental science.
Bradyauxesis explains why some plants grow imperceptibly slowly—a bonsai tree exhibits bradyauxesis not because it's a different species, but because careful pruning and root-binding forces the tree to allocate resources slowly, creating the illusion of a miniature mature tree.
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