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fructification vs maturation

maturation vs fructification

fructification and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
fructification Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of fructification; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than fructification:
  • fructification: the bearing of fruit
  • 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 fructification include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
fructification (noun) maturation (noun)
organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) (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 bearing of fruit coming to full development; becoming mature
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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