LIFE CYCLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does life cycle mean? • LIFE CYCLE (noun)
The noun LIFE CYCLE has 2 senses:
1. a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
2. the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
Familiarity information: LIFE CYCLE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LIFE CYCLE (noun)
Meaning:
A series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("life cycle" is a kind of...):
organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)
Meaning:
The course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("life cycle" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((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)
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