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pseudoannual

pseudoannual adjective: having the appearance of something that occurs annually but not following a strictly annual pattern.

Adjective

pseudoannual (comparative more pseudoannual, superlative most pseudoannual)

  1. Having the appearance of something that occurs annually but not following a strictly annual pattern.
    • In the pseudoannual rings of the root, the zones of tracheal tubes are separated from each other by rows of lignified tracheids.1933 March, Digital Library Of India, “Morphology and Anatomy of Mollugo verticillata L.”, in The Kansas University Science Bulletin, volume XXI, number 12, Lawrence, K.S.: University of Kansas, page...
    • Having detected pseudoannual growth zones by the methods already described, an attempt was made to find out how to identify them in nature.1939, Copeia, page 91

Noun

pseudoannual (plural pseudoannuals)

  1. A pseudoannual species.
    • These so-called pseudoannual species are characterized by the absence of a persisting shoot system that connects shoots longer than one vegetation period. One of these pseudoannuals is T. europaea.2009 February 10, Kathrin Kirchner, Sabine Kammermeier, Helge Bruelheide, “The response of the pseudoannual species Trientalis europaea L. to forest gap dynamics in a near-natural spruce forest”, in...

Forms of pseudoannual

Adjective
comparativemore pseudoannual
superlativemost pseudoannual
alternative formpseudo-annual
Noun
pluralpseudoannuals

Origin of pseudoannual

From pseudo- + annual.

Questions about pseudoannual

What does pseudoannual mean?
Pseudoannual means having the appearance of something that occurs annually but not following a strictly annual pattern.
What part of speech is pseudoannual?
Pseudoannual can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pseudoannual in the dictionary

  1. pseudoangiosarcomatous
  2. pseudoangle
  3. pseudoangles
  4. pseudoanglicism
  5. pseudoangular
  6. pseudoannual
  7. pseudoannuals
  8. pseudoanodontia
  9. pseudoanonymization
  10. pseudoanonymized
  11. pseudoanthropomorphic

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