ontogeny vs rooting

rooting vs ontogeny

ontogeny and rooting both are nouns.

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

As nouns, rooting is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, rooting 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
rooting: the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow

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, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogeny (noun)	rooting (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 process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow

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