growth vs sprouting

sprouting vs growth

growth and sprouting both are nouns.

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

As nouns, sprouting is a hyponym of growth; that is, sprouting 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
sprouting: the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow

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, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, 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)	sprouting (noun)
the gradual beginning or coming forth	the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
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)

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