life cycle vs growth

growth vs life cycle

life cycle and growth both are nouns.

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

As nouns, growth is a hypernym of life cycle; that is, growth 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
growth: (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, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.

life cycle (noun)	growth (noun)
a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage	the gradual beginning or coming forth
the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced	vegetation that has grown
	something grown or 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
	a progression from simpler to more complex forms
	a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
	(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

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