annual
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- noun
- /ˈæn.ju.əl/
- Specialized
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planta anual
- But I do like to keep a few pots of annuals by the front door.
- winter annuals
Now this is going to apply to what you consider annuals that fruit and flower the same year.
- Now this is going to apply to what you consider annuals that fruit and flower the same year.
Examples
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I love the change of seasons: tulips in the spring, annuals in the summer, pumpkins in the fall, and soup.
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And Japanese hop, at least in Wisconsin, is an annual species.
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The annuals are coming out pretty soon.
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Chipilin grew nine feet tall as an annual in my Massachusetts garden.
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Do a final harvest of remaining fruits and vegetables, and pull up the dead annuals.
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In temperate zones, most grain crops are planted as annuals because they are not cold tolerant.
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Amorphous, blobby beds of hot-colored annuals planted out in blocks or patterns.
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In my garden, I planted several different annuals that bloom every summer and die in the winter.
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The garden center has a great selection of annuals that thrive in a single growing season.
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Farmers often choose annuals like corn and beans because they complete their life cycle within a year.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A small change in a star's position when Earth moves around the Sun that shows how far away it is
- Specialized
A plant that grows in salt marshes and has small pale purple or white flowers
How Long-Lived
Surface Forms
Morphology
annual = annual (transparent) = annu + al
This is a standard conversion from the adjective 'annual', and the plant sense is directly based on the idea of a plant that lasts one year.
Etymology
Annual comes from the Latin annus 'year', the same root as anniversary. A helpful way to remember the plant annual is that it lives for one 'year' and then dies, so gardeners must plant it again each year.