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pauciennial

/(ˌ)pɔːsɪˈɛnɪəl/

pauciennial adjective: recurring once every few years.

Adjective

pauciennial (not comparable)

  1. Recurring once every few years.
    • Experimental and Cytological Studies on Plant Species
      II. Trifolium arvense and some other Pauciennial Herbs1955, Tyge W. Böcher, Kai Larsen, Knud Rahn, Experimental and Cytological Studies on Plant Species: II. Trifolium arvense and some other Pauciennial Herbs (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab...
    • The Tortula-Crossidium micro-zone (Figures 5.5) is dominated by acrocarpous mosses with a colonist strategy. Characteristic taxa, mainly of the pottioid genera, have a moderately short life-span (pauciennial, i.e. 1–3 years with a resting stage as spores, to pluriennial, i.e. several years, with...1998, Harald Kürschner, Shahina A. Ghazanfar, “Bryophytes and Lichens”, in Shahina A. Ghazanfar, Martin Fisher, editors, Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (Geobotany; 25), Springer-Science+Business...

Forms of pauciennial

alternative form (rare)paucennial

Origin of pauciennial

From New Latin pauciennis + English -ial, after -ennial.

Questions about pauciennial

What does pauciennial mean?
Pauciennial means recurring once every few years.
What part of speech is pauciennial?
Pauciennial is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pauciennial?
Pauciennial is pronounced /(ˌ)pɔːsɪˈɛnɪəl/.

Words near pauciennial in the dictionary

  1. pauciclonality
  2. paucident planigale
  3. paucident planigales
  4. paucidentate
  5. paucidisperse
  6. pauciennial
  7. pauciflorous
  8. paucifoliate
  9. paucigranulocytic
  10. paucigravid
  11. pauciimmune

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