foliation vs development

development vs foliation

foliation and development both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
foliation	Yes	No	No	No
development	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, development is a hypernym of foliation; that is, development is a word with a broader meaning than foliation:

foliation: (botany) the process of forming leaves
development: (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 foliation include growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

foliation (noun)	development (noun)
the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves	act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
the work of coating glass with metal foil	the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament	(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock	a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
(botany) the process of forming leaves	a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
	processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
	(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 process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
	a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

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