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sprouting vs maturation

maturation vs sprouting

sprouting and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
sprouting Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of sprouting; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than sprouting:
  • sprouting: the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
  • maturation: (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 sprouting include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
sprouting (noun) maturation (noun)
the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin 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
coming to full development; becoming mature
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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