growth stages
Progression through maturity
Growth stages are the distinct phases an organism passes through as it develops from inception to maturity.
Plants move through germination, seedling, vegetative, and reproductive stages.
Animals progress through embryonic, juvenile, and adult phases.
The term extends to businesses, products, and relationships: The company is in an early growth stage.
Each stage typically has characteristic needs and vulnerabilities.
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
- floweringProducing reproductive structures
- germinationSeed's initial growth phase
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
sprouting · golden years · childhood · growing pains · fruiting · old age · development · molting · infancy · terrible twos · middle age · over the hill · adulthood · prime of life · life cycle · puberty · coming of age · seedling
- developmentprogress, advancement, expansion, improvement, enhancement
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- insect developmentlarva, pupa, chrysalis, cocoon, metamorphosis
- lifespan healthinfant health, child health, senior health, geriatric care, pediatric care
- virtual petsTamagotchi, Neopets, virtual pet, Nintendogs, digital pet
- dinosaur growthhatchlings, maturation, ontogeny, subadults
growth stagesstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
regression · arrested development · atrophy · devolution · deterioration
growth stagesstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
dormancy · arrested development · stasis · plateau · equilibrium
growth stagessenescence
Gradual functional decline with age
death · decomposition · withering · entropy · maturity