vegetation vs growth

vegetation and growth both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

vegetation (noun)	growth (noun)
inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life	the gradual beginning or coming forth
an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)	vegetation that has grown
all the plant life in a particular region or period	something grown or growing
the process of growth in plants	(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 progression from simpler to more complex forms
	a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
	(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)