OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28978

life cycle

/ˈlaɪf ˌsaɪ.kəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ciclo de vida • ciclo vital
The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.
Plants’ life cycles are an attractive subject of study for citizen science because they are relatively easy to discern. In fact, the name for the field in which we work, phenology,…
ciclo de vida
The useful life of a product or system; the developmental history of an individual or group in society.
Since it began operating in 1950, Sellafield has had different duties. First it manufactured plutonium for nuclear weapons. Then it generated electricity for the National Grid, unt…
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