growing vs life cycle

life cycle vs growing

growing and life cycle both are nouns.

growing is an adjective but life cycle is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
growing	Yes	Yes	No	No
life cycle	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, life cycle is a hyponym of growing; that is, life cycle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than growing:

growing: (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
life cycle: the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

Other hyponyms of growing include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

growing (noun)	life cycle (noun)
(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	a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state	the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

growing (adjective)	life cycle (adjective)
relating to or suitable for growth

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