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leafing vs growth

growth vs leafing

leafing and growth both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
leafing Yes No No No
growth Yes No No No
As nouns, growth is a hypernym of leafing; that is, growth is a word with a broader meaning than leafing:
  • leafing: (botany) the process of forming leaves
  • 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 leafing include development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
leafing (noun) growth (noun)
(botany) the process of forming leaves 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 leafing and growth

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