growing vs rooting

rooting vs growing

growing and rooting both are nouns.

growing is an adjective but rooting is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
growing	Yes	Yes	No	No
rooting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rooting is a hyponym of growing; that is, rooting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than growing:

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
rooting: the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow

Other hyponyms of growing include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

growing (noun)	rooting (noun)
(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 process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

growing (adjective)	rooting (adjective)
relating to or suitable for growth

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