English noun: life cycle | |||
1. | life cycle (phenomenon) a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage | ||
Broader (hypernym) | organic phenomenon | ||
2. | life cycle (process) the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced | ||
Broader (hypernym) | development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny | ||