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leafing vs maturation

maturation vs leafing

leafing and maturation both are nouns.

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

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