annual
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- adjective
- /ˈæn.ju.əl/
- Specialized
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anual
- Yeah, I went in for my annual physical.
- annual plants
- annual crops
- annual grasses
Examples
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Arctic sea ice reaches its annual minimum in September.
Academic text (2012) -
We are currently in M&S doing our annual Christmas food shop for Christmas Day.
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John: It's my annual garden party.
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The little annual plants are not in the soil yet, but I'm just so thrilled by how fresh and beautiful this looks.
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Hamtramck made full annual required contributions into its pension plans every year but 2013.
Academic text (2017) -
The analysis of food habits in Japan yields clues about the annual cycle.
Academic text (1994) -
On December 12th, Death Valley got its entire annual allotment of rain -- 2 inches.
Blog text (22) -
Planting large areas with annual crops damages the immediate agroecosystem and beyond.
Academic text (1997) -
It looks a little bit like from this angle, probably like a little sparse, but that's how annual plantings go.
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This garden features several annual plants that bloom brightly in the summer before dying in the fall.
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 = annu + al
The word is built from the Latin stem 'annu-' plus '-al', but the stem is not a transparent modern English morpheme for most learners.
Etymology
Annual comes from the Latin annus 'year' and is the same root as anniversary. That is why calling a flower an annual means it completes its life in just one 'year' or season.