seasonal growth
Cyclical plant development
Seasonal growth refers to the increase in economic activity, employment, or business that occurs predictably at certain times of year.
Retail experiences seasonal growth before holidays; tourism peaks in summer or ski season.
The term also applies to plants and organisms whose development follows annual cycles: The tree's seasonal growth rings reveal its age.
- spring thawWarming that melts winter's ice
- floweringProducing reproductive structures
- fruitingProducing edible growth
- germinationSeed's initial growth phase
- phenologyStudy of seasonal cycles
regrowth · harvest · pollination · budding · leaf out · photosynthesis · sprouting · annual · frost dates · first frost · temperature fluctuations · solar radiation · crop rotation · horticulture · mulch · fertile · verdant · biodiversity
- growthgrowing, increase, increasing, expansion, expand
- plant climatehardiness zones, climate zones, biomes, growing seasons, frost dates
- plant hardinesshardiness zones, cold hardiness, frost resistance, cold-hardy, hardy plants
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
- ecosystem productivitybiomass, photosynthesis, autotrophs, producers, chlorophyll
- tree ringstree ring, tree rings, annual ring, annual rings, concentric rings
activity state
seasonal growthdormancy
Suspended biological activity
stagnation · hibernation · quiescence · aestivation · suspended animation