reproduction vs propagation

reproduction and propagation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
reproduction	Yes	No	No	No
propagation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, propagation is a hyponym of reproduction; that is, propagation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than reproduction:

reproduction: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
propagation: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

Other hyponyms of reproduction include crossbreeding, interbreeding, miscegenation, generation, multiplication.

reproduction (noun)	propagation (noun)
the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring	the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
the act of making copies	the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
copy that is not the original; something that has been copied	the movement of a wave through a medium
recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
the process of generating offspring

reproduction vs propagation

reproduction and propagation both are nouns.

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