ontogeny vs cohesion

cohesion vs ontogeny

ontogeny and cohesion both are nouns.

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

As nouns, cohesion is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, cohesion 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
cohesion: (botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)

Other hyponyms of ontogeny include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, 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)	cohesion (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	(physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid
	(botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)
	(linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning.
	the state of cohering or sticking together

Difference between ontogeny and cohesion

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