FAST-GROWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fast-growing mean? 

• FAST-GROWING (adjective)
  The adjective FAST-GROWING has 1 sense:

1. tending to spread quickly

  Familiarity information: FAST-GROWING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAST-GROWING (adjective)

Comparative: faster-growing   
Superlative: fastest-growing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to spread quickly

Synonyms:

aggressive; fast-growing; strong-growing

Context example:

an aggressive tumor

Similar:

invasive (marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue)

 Context examples 

A rare, fast-growing tumor of the nervous system or soft tissue that occurs in children and young adults.

(Ectomesenchymoma, NCI Dictionary)

The substance is given by mouth and is taken up by fast-growing cells.

(Fluorescence-guided surgery, NCI Dictionary)

A type of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer of the immune system) that is usually aggressive (fast-growing).

(diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)

An aggressive (fast-growing) type of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma that occurs most often in children and young adults.

(Burkitt lymphoma, NCI Dictionary)

"It is a fast-growing plant, but it is surely inconceivable that this body could have been here while the canes grew to be twenty feet in length."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A rare, fast-growing type of leukemia (blood cancer) in which too many white blood cells called B lymphocytes form in the blood and bone marrow.

(Burkitt leukemia, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used in the treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma (a fast-growing form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma).

(FOLOTYN, NCI Dictionary)

A fast-growing type of central nervous system tumor that forms from glial (supportive) tissue of the brain and spinal cord and has cells that look very different from normal cells.

(GBM, NCI Dictionary)

An antibody produced by a clone or genetically homogenous fast-growing cells i.e., hybridoma.

(Monoclonal antibody, NCI Thesaurus)

These types can be divided into aggressive (fast-growing) and indolent (slow-growing) types, and they can be formed from either B-cells or T-cells.

(NHL, NCI Dictionary)