生育|せいいくseiiku[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbbirth and growth; giving birth and raising; development; breeding
   雨あめの量りょうが作物さくもつの生育せいいくに影響えいきょうするのですか。↗

   Does the amount of rain affect the growth of crops?

• Synonym成長せいちょうNeutralThe broadest: growing up or developing — people, living things, companies, the economy. 「生育」 is narrower: living things, especially plants, from birth to full growth.
• Synonym生長せいちょうWrittenA written word for growth, chiefly of plants, but also growing up from birth. 「生育」 additionally covers giving birth and raising.
• Synonym成育せいいくWrittenGrowing to maturity of people or animals. Homophonous with 「生育」, but 「生育」 leans toward plants while 「成育」 is used for animals.
• Synonym発育はついくNeutralPhysical growth or development of the body and organs, as in 「発育が遅い」. 「生育」 covers the whole growth process and is mostly for crops.
• Synonym育ちそだちNeutralUpbringing or the environment one grew up in, as in 「育ちがいい」 and 「東京育ち」. 「生育」 is a more written word for growth and development.
• Synonym育つそだつNeutralThe everyday word for growing up or being raised. 「生育」 is a written Sino-Japanese word, mostly in agriculture and biology.
• Synonym生まれ育つうまれそだつNeutralTo be born and raised in a place, as in 「大阪で生まれ育つ」. 「生育」 is more written/formal and usually describes the growth of living things.
• Related発達はったつNeutralDevelopment of mind and body, or advancement of technology, transport and the like. 「生育」 is about living things growing, or being born and raised.
• Related成熟せいじゅくNeutralRipening of fruit or emotional/intellectual maturity in people — the outcome of growth. 「生育」 refers to the growth process itself.
• Related伸びるのびるNeutralTo grow longer or taller — hair, height — or for skills to improve. 「生育」 is the overall growth of a living thing.
• Related実るみのるNeutralTo bear fruit or produce results — only that final stage. 「生育」 covers the whole course of growth and development, not bounded by any outcome.
• Related育てるそだてるNeutralTransitive verb: to raise or bring up a child, cultivate plants, train people. 「生育」 is more written, meaning both to grow and develop and to bear and raise.
• Related栽培さいばいNeutralCultivation — growing plants deliberately by human hands. 「生育」 is the plants' growth process itself, including growth under cultivation.
• Related増殖ぞうしょくWrittenMultiplication or proliferation — cells, organisms increasing in number. 「生育」 is the growth of an individual.
• Related熟成じゅくせいNeutralAging of food and drink over time, as in 「熟成肉」. Different from 「生育」, which is about living things growing.
• Related培養ばいようWrittenArtificially culturing microbes or cells, or fostering skills. 「生育」 is the growth of the organism itself, not the act of cultivating it.
• Related生い立つおいたつWrittenA dated literary verb for growing and growing up, of people and plants alike. Everyday speech uses 「育つ」; 「生育」 is a written Sino-Japanese term.
• Related長じるちょうじるWrittenWritten word for growing up, or excelling at something, as in 「長じて〜となる」. 「生育」 is for the growth of living things.
• Related長ずるちょうずるWrittenFormal counterpart of 「長じる」: to grow up or excel. Say 「成長する」 in daily speech; 「生育」 has no excelling sense.

Use 「生育」 for living things growing from birth to maturity — especially plants and crops, as in 「稲の生育」 — or for bearing and raising children. For people or the economy, say 「成長」; for physical development, 「発育」; in everyday talk about growing up, 「育つ」; for deliberate planting, 「栽培」. The rest are narrower: 「生長」 for plant growth, 「成熟」 for ripening, 「増殖」 for multiplying cells, 「培養」 for lab culture, and so on.

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1. 生まれ育うまれそだつこと。
2. 植物しょくぶつが育そだつこと。