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noun

Biennial n.

Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.

(Bot.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years.

adjective

Biennial adj.

Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.

(Bot.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.

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Etymology of 'Biennial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Biennial" Quotes from Famous Books

... in a frame and treated as a greenhouse plant, though in reality it is a hardy perennial. The annual and biennial kinds succeed well if sown in the open in rich soil. All are ornamental and open their flowers in June. Height, 1-1/2 ft. ...

— Gardening for the Million • Alfred Pink

... herbaceous, shrubby, or treelike, varying in height from three to twenty feet. In some cases it is perennial; in most, as in the cultivated species, it is an annual or biennial. A few examples are noted for the vast number of hairs found everywhere on the plant, and on almost every part of the plant also, there may be observed black spots or glands. Usually the stem is erect, and as a rule the Cotton ...

— The Story of the Cotton Plant • Frederick Wilkinson

... names: 'The Solitude' - is that romantic? The palm-trees? - how is that for the gorgeous East? 'Var'? the name of a river - 'the quiet waters by'! 'Tis true, they are in another department, and consist of stones and a biennial spate; but what a music, what a plash of brooks, for the imagination! We have hills; we have skies; the roses are putting forth, as yet sparsely; the meadows by the sea are one sheet of jonquils; the birds sing as in an English May - for, considering ...

— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... that the public at large may know the cost of the Vermont system, I offer the following digest compiled from the last biennial report of the State Fish and ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

... roustabout, to find each week a "leader," a translation, say, from In Allgemeine Fishcherei-Zeitwung, or Economic Circular No. 10, "Mussels in the Tributaries of the Missouri," or the last biennial report of the Superintendent of Fisheries of Wisconsin, or a scientific paper on "The Porpoise in Captivity" reprinted by permission of Zoologica, of the New York Zoological Society. To find each week for reprint a poem appropriate ...

— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday

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