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(biology) The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.

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Source Word

life cycle

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈlaɪf ˌsaɪ.kəl/

Noun

broadly

(biology) The course of stages through which an organism passes from fertilized zygote until maturity, reproduction, and death.

Japanese Meaning

生物が受精卵から成熟、繁殖、そして死に至るまでの一連の段階や過程。 / 生命活動における全行程、またはライフサイクル。

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In biology class, we studied the life cycle of a butterfly, from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to adult.

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生物学の授業で、私たちは蝶の生活史を卵から幼虫、さなぎ、成虫へと変化する過程まで学びました。

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(biology) 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, literally means “the science of appearance.” The word was coined just a few years after Thoreau made his phenological observations, from the Greek phaino (to show or appear) and logos (to study).

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