Synonyms:
annual, one-year
Meaning: completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants"
Usage examples
In annual plants alone there has been a remarkable advance.
The Zinnia is another fine annual that has been much spoilt by its would-be improvers.
And there seems to be a general wish among seed growers just now to dwarf all annual plants.
Our work seemed to please the trustees of this fund, as they soon began increasing their annual grant.
We spend more money building one battleship than in the annual maintenance of all our state universities.
The annual elections at Rome had just taken place, and Terentius Varro and Emilius Paulus had been chosen consuls.
A little bamboo church, open only when the missionary from Archidona makes his annual visit, stood near our quarters.
This speaking of small gifts reminds me to say that very few Tuskegee graduates fail to send us an annual contribution.
At the last annual Apiarian Convention in Germany, a cultivator recommended wheat flour as an excellent substitute for pollen.
Many medieval estates were so tied up by legal conditions that they could not be sold outright; all that the owner could do was to sell or mortgage the annual rental.