Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun life_cycle

2 senses of life cycle

Sense 1
life cycle -- (a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage)
       => organic phenomenon -- ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)

Sense 2
life cycle -- (the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced)
       => growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, 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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")