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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun life cycle has 2 senses

• life cycle(n = noun.phenomenon) - a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage;
is a kind of organic phenomenon

• life cycle(n = noun.process) - the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced;
is a kind of development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny

THESAURUS

life cycle

anima, animating force, atman, bathmism, beating heart, biological clock, biorhythm, blood, breath, breath of life, divine breath, divine spark, elan vital, essence of life, force of life, growth force, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, impulse of life, inspiriting force, jiva, jivatma, life breath, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, living force, pneuma, prana, seat of life, soul, spark of life, spirit, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit

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