ontogeny vs flowering

flowering vs ontogeny

ontogeny and flowering both are nouns.

ontogeny is not an adjective while flowering is an adjective.

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

As nouns, flowering is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, flowering 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
flowering: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

Other hyponyms of ontogeny include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, 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)	flowering (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 time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms
	a developmental process

ontogeny (adjective)	flowering (adjective)
	when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms

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