annual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
entertainment
entomology
lifestyle
natural-sciences
theater
Etymology: First attested around 1382, borrowed from Late Latin annuālem, annuālis, related to Latin annālis, adjective form of annus (“year”). Used to categorize plants since 1710.
Inflected forms:
form: annuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Happening once every year.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an annual general meeting; an annual publication
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
gloss: Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an annual salary; average annual profits; the annual course of the sun
gloss: Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season; e.g. beans, corn, marigold. See Annual plant in Wikipedia. Compare biennial, perennial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication.
pos: noun
examples: I read the magazine, but I usually don't purchase the annuals.
gloss: An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial.
pos: noun
examples: I can't wait to plant my annuals in the spring.
gloss: A medical checkup taking place once a year.
pos: noun
examples: Some routine annuals take a half hour and cost about $30.
gloss: A pantomime taking place once a year.
pos: noun
examples: Excellent work has been done by the Playgoers' Club in connection with its Christmas Pantomime Fund. Thousands of children who possibly otherwise would have little chance of witnessing one of the hardy annuals have been annually taken […]
From 1852 until 1888 he was the author of every Drury Lane pantomime, or "Annuals" as in his old fashioned way he preferred to […]
Related words: biennial
perennial
per annum
Derived words: annual aberration
annual accounts
annual general meeting
annualise
annualize
annuality
annualization
annual leave
annually
annual meadow grass
annual mercury
annual report
annual ring
annual ryegrass
annual wormwood
biannual
bi-annual
biannually
bi-annually
circannual
first annual
ground annual
harlequin annual lupine
interannual
intraannual
multiannual
nonannual
pluriannual
pseudoannual
quadannual
semiannually
semi-annually
semiannual
semi-annual
semperannual
sesquiannual
subannual
sweet Annie
terannual
transannual
triannual
tri-annual
annualist
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