ontogenesis vs juvenescence

juvenescence vs ontogenesis

ontogenesis and juvenescence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ontogenesis	Yes	No	No	No
juvenescence	Yes	No	No	No

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

ontogenesis: (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
juvenescence: the process of growing into a youth

Other hyponyms of ontogenesis 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, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, 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.

ontogenesis (noun)	juvenescence (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 of growing into a youth

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