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 having a life cycle lasting two seasons
- 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
- 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
- xenogenesis the alternation of two or more different forms in the life cycle of a plant or animal
- scyphozoan any of various usually free-swimming marine coelenterates having a gelatinous medusoid stage as the dominant phase of its life cycle
- blister rust fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host
- intermediate host a host that is used by a parasite in the course of its life cycle