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fructification vs growth

growth vs fructification

fructification and growth both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
fructification Yes No No No
growth Yes No No No
As nouns, growth is a hypernym of fructification; that is, growth is a word with a broader meaning than fructification:
  • fructification: the bearing of fruit
  • 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 fructification include development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
fructification (noun) growth (noun)
organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) the gradual beginning or coming forth
the bearing of fruit vegetation that has grown
something grown or growing
(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 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)
Difference between fructification and growth

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