ontogeny vs dentition

dentition vs ontogeny

ontogeny and dentition both are nouns.

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

As nouns, dentition is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, dentition 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
dentition: the eruption through the gums of baby teeth

Other hyponyms of ontogeny 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, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogeny (noun)	dentition (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 kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal
	the eruption through the gums of baby teeth

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