foliation vs maturation

maturation vs foliation

foliation and maturation both are nouns.

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

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

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

foliation (noun)	maturation (noun)
the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves	(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 work of coating glass with metal foil	coming to full development; becoming mature
(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament	(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
(botany) the process of forming leaves

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