life cycle

Noun
  1. A series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage (synset 111494207)
    is a type of: organic phenomenon - (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals
  2. The course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced (synset 113529030)
    is a type 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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