Definition that contains life cycle
- annual completing its life cycle within a year
- annual (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
- medusa one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles
- biennial (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season
- biennial having a life cycle lasting two seasons
- xenogenesis the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal
- medusan one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles
- symbion pandora only known species of Cycliophora; lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip by an adhesive disk and feeding by means of a hairy mouth ring; its complex life cycle includes asexual and sexual phases
- medusoid one of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate; in this phase it has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles
- pleomorphism (biology) the appearance of two or more distinctly different forms in the life cycle of some organisms