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
A plant grown from seed that under normal conditions takes two years to complete its life cycle, developing a leafy tuft or rosette the first season then flowers, seeds and dies the second year
A plant whose life cycle extends over two growing seasons The first year the seed germinates and produces a seedling that usually remains short of the winter The second growing season the seedling rapidly grows, flowers, produces seeds and then dies
a plant that lives for two growing seasons, producing only leaves during the first season and flowers and seeds during the second
Plant which completes its life cycle, from germination, to flowering, to seed production, in two years Examples include carrots
Occurring every two years; a term applied to the regular session of the legislature
A plant with a two-year life cycle, it blooms and sets seed in the second year Back to alphabetical list
A plant that usually only lives two years, normally producing flowers and seed the second year
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 having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals"
Issued in alternate years Thus, published once every two years Compare Semiannual
Plants which require 2 growing seasons to complete a life cycle- i e to germinate, flower, seed & die