vegetation vs ontogenesis

ontogenesis vs vegetation

vegetation and ontogenesis both are nouns.

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

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

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

vegetation (noun)	ontogenesis (noun)
inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life	(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
an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
all the plant life in a particular region or period
the process of growth in plants

Difference between vegetation and ontogenesis

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