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dentition vs maturation

maturation vs dentition

dentition and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
dentition Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of dentition; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than dentition:
  • dentition: the eruption through the gums of baby teeth
  • maturation: (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 dentition include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
dentition (noun) maturation (noun)
the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal (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
the eruption through the gums of baby teeth coming to full development; becoming mature
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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