LIFE CYCLE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
   Hypernyms(s) life cycle is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • organic phenomenon (what does organic phenomenon mean?)
2. Meaning
   • the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
   Hypernyms(s) life cycle is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • growth (what does growth mean?)
   • growing (what does growing mean?)
   • maturation (what does maturation mean?)
   • development (what does development mean?)
   • ontogeny (what does ontogeny mean?)
   • ontogenesis (what does ontogenesis mean?)