flowering vs ontogeny

ontogeny vs flowering

flowering and ontogeny both are nouns.

flowering is an adjective but ontogeny is not an adjective.

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

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

flowering: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
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 flowering include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis.

flowering (noun)	ontogeny (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

flowering (adjective)	ontogeny (adjective)
when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms

Difference between flowering and ontogeny

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