ontogeny vs apposition

apposition vs ontogeny

ontogeny and apposition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ontogeny	Yes	No	No	No
apposition	Yes	No	No	No

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

ontogeny: (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
apposition: (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material

Other hyponyms of ontogeny include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, 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, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogeny (noun)	apposition (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 act of positioning close together (or side by side)
	(biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
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Difference between ontogeny and apposition

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