inflorescence vs ontogenesis

inflorescence and ontogenesis both are nouns.

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

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

inflorescence: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
ontogenesis: (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, maturation, ontogeny.

inflorescence (noun)	ontogenesis (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