inflorescence vs ontogeny

inflorescence and ontogeny both are nouns.

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

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

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

inflorescence (noun)	ontogeny (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