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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
life cycle
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is an obligate parasite with a complex life cycle.
▪ Like most butterflies they share the same basic life cycle.
▪ The need is to consider the economic life cycle of each alternative in order to determine the optimal replacement.
▪ The older drugs also curbed replication, but at another point in the virus' life cycle.
▪ This balance changes throughout the life cycle.
▪ With warming temperatures, the life cycle speeds up.
Wiktionary
life cycle

alt. (context biology English) The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death. n. (context biology English) The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.

WordNet
life cycle
  1. n. 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

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Life cycle

Life cycle may refer to:

Life Cycle (Dave Holland album)

Life Cycle is an album featuring solo cello performances by Dave Holland recorded in 1982 and released on the ECM label.

Life Cycle (Sieges Even album)

Life Cycle is the first studio album by the progressive metal band Sieges Even. The album is known for being a speed metal album, which in their next album they embarked on a change in their sound.

Life Cycle (Whit Dickey album)

Life Cycle is an album by American jazz drummer Whit Dickey recorded in 2000 and released on the Aum Fidelity label. Dickey leads the Nommonsemble, which includes Rob Brown on alto sax and flute, Mat Maneri on viola and Matthew Shipp on piano.

Usage examples of "life cycle".

But the creatureswere radically nonhuman in appearance, more alien in form and life cycle than any intelligence yet encountered by Humankind.

This completes the nor- mally 4 to 6 month life cycle, which may take as little as 2 months or as long as 10 months.

You may find that each of the full moons corresponds with a personal event or prevailing mood in your own yearly life cycle.

How does one study the life cycle of an organism that may live for millennia, or even cross the galaxy?

He returned to discoursing with Maya about the life cycle of sand crabs.