inflorescence vs growth

growth vs inflorescence

inflorescence and growth both are nouns.

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

As nouns, growth is a hypernym of inflorescence; that is, growth is a word with a broader meaning than inflorescence:

inflorescence: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
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 inflorescence include development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

inflorescence (noun)	growth (noun)
the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk	the gradual beginning or coming forth
the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms	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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