auxesis vs ontogeny

auxesis and ontogeny both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
auxesis	Yes	No	No	No
ontogeny	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ontogeny is a hypernym of auxesis; that is, ontogeny is a word with a broader meaning than auxesis:

auxesis: growth from increase in cell size without cell division
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 auxesis include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis.

auxesis (noun)	ontogeny (noun)
growth from increase in cell size without cell division	(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