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pluriannual

pluriannual adjective: covering more than one year.

Adjective

pluriannual (not comparable)

  1. Covering more than one year.
    • This may be related to various factors, among others the earlier harvest date in pluriannual crops (thus extended exposure after protection and until fledging), and higher vole abundance in these types of habitat (Jareno et al. 2014) which may attract more predators.2015 May 29, Andrea Santangeli et al., “Identifying effective actions to guide volunteer-based and nationwide conservation efforts for a ground-nesting farmland bird”, in The Journal of Applied...

Origin of pluriannual

From pluri- + annual.

Questions about pluriannual

What does pluriannual mean?
Pluriannual means covering more than one year.
What part of speech is pluriannual?
Pluriannual is an adjective.

Words near pluriannual in the dictionary

  1. plurannual
  2. plurennial
  3. plurennials
  4. pluri-
  5. plurialgal
  6. pluriannual
  7. pluriannually
  8. pluriarticular
  9. pluriarticulate
  10. pluriaxial
  11. pluribacillary

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