biennial

Living for two years, each biennial plant forms a rosette of leaves during the first year of life, and a 3- to 8-foot tall flower stalk with yellow flowers during its second and final year of life.

Efforts to elect new LGBTQ members of Congress are underscored by the recent release of the Human Rights Campaign’s biennial congressional scorecard, for which a record number of 228 members of Congress earned a perfect “100” score.

Famous in history by the biennial meetings of the Blackmailers' Club.

Endive, en′div, n. an annual or biennial plant of the same genus as chicory, used as a salad.

In 1877 the constitution was amended by providing for biennial, instead of annual, sessions of the legislature.

In its natural state, this is a perennial plant; but, when cultivated, it is generally treated as an annual or as a biennial.

In South Carolina they are biennial—as is proposed in the federal government.

There is also a biennial conference of the evangelical churches held at Eisenach to discuss matters of general interest.

The annual and biennial kinds are sown in the open in spring.

The Ten-weeks and the biennial or Brompton Stocks, are found in nearly all old-fashioned gardens.