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apposition vs ontogeny

ontogeny vs apposition

apposition and ontogeny both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
apposition Yes No No No
ontogeny Yes No No No
As nouns, ontogeny is a hypernym of apposition; that is, ontogeny is a word with a broader meaning than apposition:
  • apposition: (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
  • ontogeny: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
Other hypernyms of apposition include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis.
apposition (noun) ontogeny (noun)
the act of positioning close together (or side by side) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
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