Apposition and Ontogenesis

Apposition

Apposition noun - (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material.

Ontogenesis and apposition are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ontogenesis" instead a noun "Apposition".

Nearby Words: apposite, appositely

Ontogenesis

Ontogenesis noun - (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.

Apposition and ontogenesis are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Apposition" with "Ontogenesis", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Word: ontogeny
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Ontogenesis and Apposition. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/apposition/ontogenesis
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