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infructescence vs maturation

maturation vs infructescence

infructescence and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
infructescence Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of infructescence; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than infructescence:
  • infructescence: the fruiting stage of the inflorescence
  • 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 infructescence include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
infructescence (noun) maturation (noun)
the fruiting stage of the inflorescence (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
coming to full development; becoming mature
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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