Noun

• S: (n) life cycle (a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage)
• S: (n) life cycle (the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) 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"
• S: (n) organic process, biological process (a process occurring in living organisms)
• S: (n) process, physical process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states) "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
• S: (n) physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))