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life cycle vs maturation

maturation vs life cycle

life cycle and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
life cycle Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of life cycle; that is, maturation 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
  • maturation: (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, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
life cycle (noun) maturation (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 coming to full development; becoming mature
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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