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A plant that requires two years to complete its life-cycle, germinating and growing in its first year, then producing its flowers and fruit in its second year, after which it usually dies

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An event that happens every two years

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Happening every two years.

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Lasting for two years.

There is a biennial school appropriation of $15,000,000.

Meetings of the legislature are biennial, although special sessions may be called by the governor.

The sessions were biennial and limited to 60 days.

State elections were annual until 1897 when they were made biennial; they are held on the second Monday in September in even numbered years, Maine being one of the few states in the Union in which they are not held in November.

The General Assemblies are biennial, sessions limited to 90 days (45 before 1884); state and county elections are held at the same time (since 1902).

The departments are provided with biennial departmental assemblies, but their governors are appointees of the national executive.

Elections to the Senate and Assembly are biennial.

Co-locating with MACH and going biennial is clearly the future for the drives industry.

Its ninth biennial conference (PPSN IX) will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland on 9-13 September 2006.

In its revised format the Awards became biennial taking place every two years.

All elections and appointments are biennial.

Prior to 1904 elections were annual, but by an amendment of that year they became biennial.

The sessions of the legislature are biennial.

The legislative department consists of a senate of 30 members, apportioned among the counties according to population, but with the proviso that each county must have at least one senator, and a House of Representatives of 245 members, one from each township. Since 1870 elections and legislative sessions have been biennial.

The reorganization of the Archaeological and Artistic Museum and of the Royal Gallery of Ancient Art coincided with the inauguration in April 1895 of a series of biennial International Art Exhibitions, arranged in order to celebrate the silver wedding of the king and queen of Italy.

Elections are biennial.

Sessions are biennial.

It is really a biennial, but grows itself so freely as to become perennial in the garden.

The biennial form is that which is considered officinal.

Under this charter only three administrative officers are elected, - the mayor, the city clerk and the city treasurer, - elections being biennial.

The Easter Ski Trip, which is usually biennial, is primarily for Year 7 and 8 students.

Spreading growth, hardy, and sometimes biennial bearing.

Two days before the football started, the bidding countries were given the floor at the biennial congress of the Confederation of African Football.

It is easily raised from seed, and should be treated as a biennial.

Silene Pendula - There are many garden forms of this fine biennial.

It is annual, or biennial, according to the way it is sown and grown.

M. incana grows wild on cliffs in the Isle of Wight, and is the origin of the Biennial, or Brompton and Queen Stocks; M. annua has yielded the Ten-week Stocks, and M. sinuata the others.

All these plants are short-lived, and best regarded as of biennial duration only.

In dry open weather plant dried roots, including most of the finer florists' flowers; continue the transplanting of hardy biennial flowers and herbaceous plants.

The means used to promote these objects are mainly (1) the formation of local branch associations throughout the country, the duty of which is by lectures, meetings and the distribution of suitable literature to make known and advocate its principles, and (2) the holding of great annual or biennial meetings of the whole association, at which its objects and principles are expounded and applied to the circumstances of the Church at the moment.

There are two forms of the plant, an annual and a biennial, which spring indifferently from the same crop of seed - the one growing on during summer to a height of from to 2 ft., and flowering and perfecting seed; the other producing the first season only a tuft of radical leaves, which disappear in winter, leaving under ground a thick fleshy root, from the crown of which arises in spring a branched flowering stem, usually much taller and more vigorous than the flowering stems of the annual plants.

The city is the see of a Protestant Episcopal bishop. In the Capitol are the library (about 6000 volumes) and natural history collections of the Kansas Academy of Science, and the library (30,000 books, 94,000 pamphlets and 28,500 manuscripts) and collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, which publishes Kansas Historical Collections (1875 sqq.) and Biennial Reports (1879 sqq.).

Mercie was appointed professor of drawing and sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and was elected a member of the Academie Frangaise in 1891, after being awarded the biennial prize of the institute of 800 in 1887.

The biennial British Archeological awards are the most prestigious awards in British archeology.

Climbing Fumitory (Adlumia) - Climbing biennial plants.

Though not quite a biennial, it is better in general cultivation to treat it as such, as from seedling plants, well grown on during the first year, the finest stems arise.

To ensure strong plants for winter borders or beds, seed should be sown about May, as the plant is a biennial.

Indian Poppy (Meconopsis) - Handsome Poppyworts, the most familiar of which is the common Welsh Poppy (M. cambrica); the other kinds are natives of the Himalayas, hardy, but only of biennial duration.

It is a biennial, hardy, and with oval uncut leaves of pale green, about 1 foot long when fully grown, and more or less covered with soft, silky hairs.

Sometimes it flowers in the third or even in the fourth year, but is usually considered a biennial, and should be treated as a hardy one.

C. monspeliensis is a pretty dwarf plant of the Primrose order, about 6 inches high, usually biennial in our gardens, thriving on dry sunny parts of the rock garden, in sandy soil, and among dwarf plants.

After many years of labor in layering and planting, the attempt to grow named varieties in the usual way was abandoned, and the plan was adopted of raising seedlings, the Carnation being thus treated practically as a biennial.

Pheasants Eye (Adonis) - Beautiful perennial or biennial plants, belonging to the Buttercup order, chiefly natives of cornfields in Europe and Western Asia, dwarf, with finely-divided leaves, and red or yellow flowers.

It is biennial and often perishes on some soils.

Bonduelli (yellow), a biennial if protected in winter; S. spicata, with spikes of small rosy flowers; Thouini (violet), very free flowering; and sinuata (purple and white), pretty and easy to grow.

E. plantagineum is one of the handsomest of the annual or biennial species.

In sandy soil it is perennial, but on heavy and damp soils must be grown as annual or biennial.

Barbarea, which is also known as winter cress, is an edible biennial plant that produces yellow flowers.

The legislative department consists of a Senate, with members chosen every four years, and about half chosen at each biennial election; and a House of Representatives, with members chosen biennially.

Their functions in annual, biennial and herbaceous perennial plants cease after the ripening of the seed, whilst in plants of longer duration layer after layer of strong woody tissue is formed, which enables them to bear the strains which the weight of foliage and the exposure to wind entail.