ontogenesis vs palingenesis

palingenesis vs ontogenesis

ontogenesis and palingenesis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, palingenesis is a hyponym of ontogenesis; that is, palingenesis 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
palingenesis: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

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, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogenesis (noun)	palingenesis (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	emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

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