life cycle
The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until…The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
» This remarkable life cycle is what makes salmon and steelhead truly unique.
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2 sensesThe course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
Meronym: life forms
Lebenszyklus
жи́зненный циклžíznennyj cikl
a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
(broadly)The useful life of a product or system; the developmental history of an individual or group in society.
Lebenszyklus
жи́зненный циклžíznennyj cikl
Examples
4 sentencesThis remarkable life cycle is what makes salmon and steelhead truly unique.
Reincarnation teaches that life is a cycle and continues beyond one lifetime.
The life cycle of an amphibian consists of three stages: egg, larva and adult.
Ticks have to feed on blood in order to move onto each new stage of their life cycle.
Translations
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Origin
From life + cycle.From life + cycle.
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