Synonyms for life cycle
life cy·cle

Princeton's WordNet

1. life cyclenoun

   a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage

2. life cyclenoun

   the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

Matched Categories

1. • Growth
   • Organic Phenomenon

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1. Stockdale Walden:

   What happens is that the parasite gets into humans -- humans are not the host that it can complete its life cycle in, as opposed to being in a rat -- so when it gets in a human, it can get lost, and it will go to the brain, and it'll stay there, when it gets to the brain, you can have eosinophilic meningitis.

2. Kaitlyn Loftus:

   The life cycle of clouds is really important when we think about planet habitability, but clouds and precipitation are really complicated and too complex to model completely. We're looking for simpler ways to understand how clouds evolve, and a first step is whether cloud droplets evaporate in the atmosphere or make it to the surface as rain.

3. Josh Laughlin:

   The science is pretty clear that when you're suction dredge mining, you're disturbing the integrity of spawning gravels, this impacts the early life cycle of salmon.

4. Peter Arno:

   Social Security is the most successful anti-poverty policy in the history of the United States, and this is not true just for seniors, but across the entire life cycle and the entire population. It reduces more poverty for children than any other policy, more poverty for working adults and more poverty for seniors. So it's an intergenerational antipoverty program.

5. Philipp Heck:

   With this study, we have directly determined the lifetimes of stardust. We hope this will be picked up and studied so that people can use this as input for models of the whole galactic life cycle, it's so exciting to look at the history of our galaxy. Stardust is the oldest material to reach Earth, and from it, we can learn about our parent stars, the origin of the carbon in our bodies [ and ] the origin of the oxygen we breathe. With stardust, we can trace that material back to the time before the sun.