Terms vs Annual - What's the difference?
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Happening once every year.
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, title= 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.
(botany, of a plant) Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season; e.g. beans, corn, marigold. See in Wikipedia. Compare biennial, perennial.
(entomology) Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies.
An ; 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.
(botany) An ; 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.
As nouns the difference between terms and annual
is that terms is while annual is an ; 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.As an adjective annual is
happening once every year.annual
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Adjective
(-)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=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.}}
Synonyms
* yearlyDerived terms
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* per annumNoun
(en noun)- ''I read the magazine, but I usually don't purchase the annuals .
- I can't wait to plant my annuals in the spring.