biennial

biennial is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
2. adjective. Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
3. noun. Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
4. noun. A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
5. noun. (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
6. adjective. having a life cycle lasting two seasons

   "a biennial life cycle"

   "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals"

7. adjective. occurring every second year

   "they met at biennial conventions"

   Synonyms: biyearly

Synonyms

biyearly

Common word forms

biennials, biennially

Words from these letters

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