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life cycle vs growing

growing vs life cycle

life cycle and growing both are nouns.

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

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
life cycle Yes No No No
growing Yes Yes No No
As nouns, growing is a hypernym of life cycle; that is, growing is a word with a broader meaning than life cycle:
  • life cycle: the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
  • 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
Other hypernyms of life cycle include development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
life cycle (noun) growing (noun)
a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage (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
the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
life cycle (adjective) growing (adjective)
relating to or suitable for growth
Difference between life cycle and growing

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