I think that "crystal growth" would be a process rather than a thing.
I also think that, in general, crystals themselves are not dissipative
structures - they are stable without any throughput of energy to
maintain them.
Crystal growth is dissipative - like any other growth process.
A growing crystal extracts energy from a super-saturated
solution and turns it into atomic order while emitting heat.
That being so, I am not clear about the entity you are referring to as
a dissipative structure.
In that case: a growing crystal.
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