foliation vs growth

growth vs foliation

foliation and growth both are nouns.

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

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

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

foliation (noun)	growth (noun)
the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves	the gradual beginning or coming forth
the work of coating glass with metal foil	vegetation that has grown
(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament	something grown or growing
(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock	(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
(botany) the process of forming leaves	a progression from simpler to more complex forms
	a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
	(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

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