maturation vs inflorescence

inflorescence vs maturation

maturation and inflorescence both are nouns.

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

As nouns, inflorescence is a hyponym of maturation; that is, inflorescence is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than maturation:

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
inflorescence: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Other hyponyms of maturation include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

maturation (noun)	inflorescence (noun)
(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 flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
coming to full development; becoming mature	the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

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