ontogeny vs vegetation

vegetation vs ontogeny

ontogeny and vegetation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, vegetation is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, vegetation 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
vegetation: the process of growth in plants

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, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis.

ontogeny (noun)	vegetation (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	inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
	an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
	all the plant life in a particular region or period
	the process of growth in plants

Difference between ontogeny and vegetation

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