Annual, Any plant that completes its life cycle in a single growing season.
What's with the metaphor of the moth life cycle in this video?
Biennial, Any plant that completes its life cycle in two growing seasons.
Thus, the evolution of a completely saprophytic life cycle in different groups of orchids is not surprising.
The walk seemed like a life cycle in miniature: first overcast skies, then a pleasant drizzle, finally a hard rain.
The trypanosome passes part of its life cycle in the insect and again becomes infective to humans.
This behaviour is found in many annual plants, which complete their life cycle in a single growing season.
Rayadas are cultivated rice of longest life cycle in Bangladesh.
They are designed with a short-term life cycle in mind – like a seasonal version of Angry Birds, for example.
Cryptosporidium spp. are coccidians, which complete their life cycle in both humans and animals.
Arabidopsis plants grew and completed a full life cycle in microgravity.
