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flowering vs growing

growing vs flowering

flowering and growing both are nouns.

flowering and growing both are adjectives.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
flowering Yes Yes No No
growing Yes Yes No No
As nouns, growing is a hypernym of flowering; that is, growing is a word with a broader meaning than flowering:
  • flowering: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
  • growing: (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 flowering include development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
flowering (noun) growing (noun)
the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms (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
a developmental process (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
flowering (adjective) growing (adjective)
when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms relating to or suitable for growth
Difference between flowering and growing

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