Age
Age noun - An extent of time associated with a particular person or thing.
Usage example: the Bronze Age marks the beginning of the use of metal by ancient peoples
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These "copies" age much more quickly than a human child, and once enough of them have been born, they enter the next phase of their reproductive cycle, wherein they 'die' and scatter their seeds.
Source: Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong -
The Hosts in Embassytown have a cycle that's skimmed over, but there is an initial aquatic phase of life, where the young Hosts are referred to a "elvers", a terrestrial phase where young play and fight, middle age and sapience, and their final phase, lumbering and nonsentient.
Source: Bizarre Alien Reproduction -
Turians are said to have a life cycle similar to humans' but are also known to conscript every able-bodied young person into the military at only fifteen years of age.
Source: Child Soldiers
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