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infructescence vs growth

growth vs infructescence

infructescence and growth both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
infructescence Yes No No No
growth Yes No No No
As nouns, growth is a hypernym of infructescence; that is, growth is a word with a broader meaning than infructescence:
  • infructescence: the fruiting stage of the inflorescence
  • 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 infructescence include development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
infructescence (noun) growth (noun)
the fruiting stage of the inflorescence the gradual beginning or coming forth
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)
Difference between infructescence and growth

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