vegetation vs development

development vs vegetation

vegetation and development both are nouns.

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

As nouns, development is a hypernym of vegetation; that is, development is a word with a broader meaning than vegetation:

vegetation: the process of growth in plants
development: (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 vegetation include growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

vegetation (noun)	development (noun)
inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life	act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)	the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
all the plant life in a particular region or period	(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
the process of growth in plants	a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
	a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
	processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
	(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
	a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
	a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

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