grow from

grow from (something)

1. To develop from a particular starting point or thing. Usually said of plants. What do tulips grow from? Bulbs?
2. To change and mature after having had a particular experience. That break-up was really painful, but I did grow from it—now, I only date people who truly care about me.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

grow something from something

to propagate a plant from a seed, bulb, corm, etc. I grew these tomatoes from seeds. Can you grow a mango tree from a seed?
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grow from something

to develop and grow from a seed, bulb, corm, etc. This huge tree grew from a little seed. What kind of plant grows from this bulb?
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • grow from (something)
  • burgeon out
  • a grain of mustard seed
  • grow into
  • grow into (something)
  • grow out
  • ripen up
  • adulting
  • on mature reflection
  • The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
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Sugar maples can grow from 75 to 100 feet or more with a circumference of 2 to 3 feet.
The Savory Sugar Maple
On average, head hair grows between 1.5 and 3 centimeters (0.5 to 1 inch) per month and can grow from two to six years before it stops growing and falls out (don't worry, it starts again).
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wire and cable market will grow from $15.1 billion in 1992 to $20.2 billion in 1999 at a four percent compound annual rate, projects a study just released by Frost & Sullivan.
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One of the possibilities was the use of tiny mineral grains as "nucleant" particles, around which protein crystals could be encouraged to grow from solution.
Minerals for growth: mineral surfaces turn out to be useful platforms for growing protein crystals