biennial
adj/baɪˈɛn.i.əl/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bienni(um) (“two-year period”) [from bis, bi- (“twice”) + annus (“year”)] + -al (suffix forming adjectives). By surface analysis, bi- + -ennial.
- borrowed from biennium
Definitions
Happening every two years.
- This is a marked difference from the task force’s previous guidance, which was to start biennial mammograms by age 50.
Lasting for two years.
A plant that requires two years to complete its life-cycle, germinating and growing in…
A plant that requires two years to complete its life-cycle, germinating and growing in its first year, then producing its flowers and fruit in its second year, after which it usually dies.
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An event that happens every two years.
- The famous Biennial was won by Earl of Dartrey, a light, peacocky horse, who was, perhaps, better than he looked.
The neighborhood
- synonymbiennary
- synonymbiannual
- neighborbiennium
- neighborbiennially
- neighborbiannual
- neighborsemiannual
- neighborannual
- neighbortriennial
- neighborquadrennial
- neighborquinquennial
- neighborsexennial
- neighborseptennial
- neighboroctennial
- neighbornovennial
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for biennial. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA