biennial
/baɪˈɛniəl/
adjective
- Happening once every two years.
- The city hosts a biennial art festival that attracts visitors from around the world.
- Our club holds a biennial election to choose new officers.
- The biennial conference on climate change will take place in Paris next year.
- Of a plant: living for two years, typically flowering and producing seeds in the second year before dying.
- The biennial foxglove blooms in its second summer and then dies.
- Many gardeners plant biennial flowers like hollyhocks for their tall, colorful stalks.
- Carrots are a biennial plant, but we usually harvest them in the first year for the root.
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- An event that happens once every two years.
- The biennial attracts thousands of visitors to the small town.
- The Venice Biennale is one of the most famous biennials in the art world.
- Our company sends representatives to the biennial of international trade.
- A plant that lives for two years, flowering and dying in the second year.
- If you plant biennials in the fall, they will bloom the following spring.
- The garden center sells seeds for biennials like sweet William and forget-me-nots.
- Parsley is a biennial that is often grown as an annual in cold climates.