maturation vs sprouting

sprouting vs maturation

maturation and sprouting both are nouns.

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

As nouns, sprouting is a hyponym of maturation; that is, sprouting 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
sprouting: the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow

Other hyponyms of maturation include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, 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)	sprouting (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 process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
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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