ontogeny vs foliation

foliation vs ontogeny

ontogeny and foliation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, foliation is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, foliation 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
foliation: (botany) the process of forming leaves

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, 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)	foliation (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 production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves
	the work of coating glass with metal foil
	(architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament
	(geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock
	(botany) the process of forming leaves

Difference between ontogeny and foliation

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