foliation vs ontogeny

ontogeny vs foliation

foliation and ontogeny both are nouns.

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

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

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

foliation (noun)	ontogeny (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
(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
(botany) the process of forming leaves

Difference between foliation and ontogeny

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