biennial

Meanings

Adjective

• Happening every two years.
• Lasting for two years.

Noun

• A plant that requires two years to complete its life-cycle, germinating and growing in its first year, then producing its flowers and fruit in its second year, after which it usually dies
• An event that happens every two years

Related

Similar words

• biennary ; biannual

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin biennium ("two-year period") [from bis, bi- + annus] + -al; surface analysis bi- + -ennial.