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biennials

biennials is the plural of biennial.

Meaning of biennial

Noun

biennial (plural biennials)

  1. 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.
  2. An event that happens every two years.
    • The famous Biennial was won by Earl of Dartrey, a light, peacocky horse, who was, perhaps, better than he looked.1891, Sir George Chetwynd, Racing Reminiscences and Experiences of the Turf, page 122

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Questions about biennials

What is biennials the plural of?
Biennials is the plural of biennial.

Words near biennials in the dictionary

  1. bienness
  2. biennia
  3. biennial
  4. bienniality
  5. biennially
  6. biennials
  7. biennium
  8. bienniums
  9. Biens
  10. bienséance
  11. Bienvenu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biennials (page history and authors); biennial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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