rooting vs ontogenesis

rooting and ontogenesis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, ontogenesis is a hypernym of rooting; that is, ontogenesis is a word with a broader meaning than rooting:

rooting: the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow
ontogenesis: (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

Other hypernyms of rooting include development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogeny.

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