Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)development, evolutiona process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)“the development of his ideas took many years”, “the evolution of Greek civilization”, “the slow development of her skill as a writer”
(n)evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms