Usually means: Growth that is unhealthy or detrimental.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. maldevelopment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. maldevelopment: Wiktionary
  3. maldevelopment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  4. maldevelopment: Dictionary.com
  5. Maldevelopment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. maldevelopment: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (maldevelopment)

noun:  The state of an organism or an organisation that did not develop in the "normal" way (used in medicine, e.g. "brain maldevelopment of a fetus").
noun:  Under the philosophy of sustainable development, poor economic, human or social development.

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