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bi·en·ni·al

(bī-ĕn′ē-əl)

adj.

1. Lasting or living for two years.

2. Happening every second year.

3. Botany Having a life cycle that normally takes two growing seasons to complete.

1. An event that occurs every two years.

2. Botany

a. A plant that normally requires two seasons to complete its life cycle, growing usually as a rosette in the first season and producing flowers and fruits and then dying in the second season.

b. A perennial plant, such as the English daisy, cultivated as a biennial.

bi·en′ni·al·ly adv.

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biennial

(baɪˈɛnɪəl)

adj

1. occurring every two years

2. lasting two years. Compare biannual

3. (Botany) a plant, such as the carrot, that completes its life cycle within two years, developing vegetative storage parts during the first year and flowering and fruiting in its second year. Compare annual³, perennial³

4. an event that takes place every two years

biˈennially adv

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bi•en•ni•al

(baɪˈɛn i əl)

adj.

1. happening every two years: biennial games.

2. lasting or enduring for two years.

3. (of a plant) requiring two years to complete a life cycle; blooming and forming seeds in the second year.

4. an event occurring once in two years.

5. a biennial plant.

Also, biyearly (for defs. 1, 2).

[1615–25]

bi•en′ni•al•ly, adv.

bi·en·ni·al

(bī-ĕn′ē-əl)

Adjective

Completing a life cycle normally in two growing seasons.

Noun

A biennial plant. Carrots, parsnips, and sugar beets are some examples of biennials.

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biennial

1. A plant with a two-year life cycle.

2. A plant that dies after its second growing season, usually not flowering until the second year.

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Noun	1.	biennial - (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plants
Adj.	1.	biennial - having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals" two-year phytology, botany - the branch of biology that studies plants annual, one-year - completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants" perennial - lasting three seasons or more; "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant"
	2.	biennial - occurring every second year; "they met at biennial conventions" biyearly periodic, periodical - happening or recurring at regular intervals; "the periodic appearance of the seventeen-year locust"

Translations

، حادِثٌ أو عائِشٌ كلَّ سَنَتيْن

dvouletý

toårig

zweijährig

bienal

bisannuel biennal

kétévenkénti

tvíær

biennale bienne

dvimetis

divgadīgs

toårig

iki yıllık

两年一次的二年生的

biennial

[baɪˈenɪəl]

A. ADJ

1. (= every two years) → bienal

2. (Bot) → bianual

B. N (= plant) → planta f bienal

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

biennial

[baɪˈɛniəl]

adj

[festival, event, conference] → biennal(e)

[plant] → bisannuel(le)

n (= plant) → plante f bisannuelle, bisannuel m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

biennial

adj (= every two years) → zweijährlich; (rare, = lasting two years) → zweijährig

n (Bot) → zweijährige Pflanze

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

biennial

[baɪˈɛnɪəl]

1. adj → biennale

2. n (pianta) → biennale f

biennial

(baiˈeniəl) adjective

(of plants etc) lasting for two years. Wallflowers are biennial; a biennial plant.

References in classic literature ?

In order to decide on the propriety of this article, two questions must be considered: first, whether biennial elections will, in this case, be safe; secondly, whether they be necessary or useful.

And if we may argue from the degree of liberty retained even under septennial elections, and all the other vicious ingredients in the parliamentary constitution, we cannot doubt that a reduction of the period from seven to three years, with the other necessary reforms, would so far extend the influence of the people over their representatives as to satisfy us that biennial elections, under the federal system, cannot possibly be dangerous to the requisite dependence of the House of Representatives on their constituents.

As far as we can draw any conclusion from it, it must be that if the people of that country have been able under all these disadvantages to retain any liberty whatever, the advantage of biennial elections would secure to them every degree of liberty, which might depend on a due connection between their representatives and themselves.

Have we any reason to infer, from the spirit and conduct of the representatives of the people, prior to the Revolution, that biennial elections would have been dangerous to the public liberties?

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Is it probable that it would be persevered in, and transmitted along through all the successive variations in a representative body, which biennial elections would naturally produce in both houses?

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-- for the nobler plants are valued for the fruit they bear at last in the air and light, far from the ground, and are not treated like the humbler esculents, which, though they may be biennials, are cultivated only till they have perfected their root, and often cut down at top for this purpose, so that most would not know them in their flowering season.

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One of the most prominent, the Sharjah Biennial, is considered a critical resource for artists and cultural organizations in the Gulf.

Sharjah Biennial art exhibitions enrich Gulf's cultural discourse

Summary: Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Mar 12 (ANI): Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Tuesday bagged four MLC seats out of five while the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won the fifth seat in biennial elections to the Telangana Legislative Council.

Telangana: TRS wins 4 seats, AIMIM one in biennial elections

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will be the sponsor of the fifth cycle of the D-0 ARK Underground Biennial Project, which is being held in Konjic.

UNESCO once again sponsor of D-0 ARK Underground Biennial Project in Konjic

Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) has announced the curators of the 12th Taipei Biennial, just days prior to the conclusion of the 11th, which ends on March 10.

Taipei Fine Arts Museum announces curators for 12th Taipei Biennial

The unstoppable takeover of the art world by the biennial form is evidenced by the nearly 250 biennials operating globally, listed by the Biennial Foundation's Directory of Biennials.

Biennial boom

The Photographic Society of Oman (PSO) won the gold medal in the 19th FIAP Nature Biennial 2018.