growth vs fructification

fructification vs growth

growth and fructification both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
growth	Yes	No	No	No
fructification	Yes	No	No	No

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

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
fructification: the bearing of fruit

Other hyponyms of growth include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, 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, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

growth (noun)	fructification (noun)
the gradual beginning or coming forth	organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
vegetation that has grown	the bearing of fruit
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)

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