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inflorescence vs maturation

maturation vs inflorescence

inflorescence and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
inflorescence Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of inflorescence; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than inflorescence:
  • inflorescence: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
  • 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 inflorescence include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
inflorescence (noun) maturation (noun)
the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk (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 time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms coming to full development; becoming mature
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
Difference between inflorescence and maturation

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