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- Biennial - a. - Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
- Biennial - a. - Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
- Biennial - n. - Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
- Biennial - n. - A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
- Biennially - adv. - Once in two years.
- Caraway - n. - A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
- Biennial - a. - Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
- Smallage - n. - A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
- Hound's-tongue - n. - A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.
- Burdock - n. - A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
- Parsnip - n. - The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.
- Biennial - n. - Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
- Carrot - n. - An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
- Beet - n. - A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
- Drosera - n. - A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.