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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Annual \An"nu*al\ (?; 135), adjective [OE. annuel, F. annuel, fr. L. annualis, fr. annus year. Cf. {Annals}.]
1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. --Ray.
2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
A thousand pound a year, annual support. --Shak.
2. Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Annual \An"nu*al\, noun
1. A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
2. Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. --Swift.
3. (R. C. Ch.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
annual
adjective
1: occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income" [syn: {yearly}]
2: completing its life cycle within a year; "a border of annual flowering plants" [syn: {one-year}] [ant: {biennial}, {perennial}]
noun
1: a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
2: a reference book that is published regularly once every year [syn: {yearbook}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "annual": Domesday Book, account, account book, account rendered, accounting, acta, address book, adversaria, album, amphibian, angiosperm, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, aquatic plant, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, blankbook, blotter, brief, bulletin, calendar, cashbook, catalog, catamenial, census report, centenary, centennial, classified catalog, commonplace book, cosmopolite, court calendar, cutting, daily, daybook, decennial, deciduous plant, desk calendar, diary, dicot, dicotyledon, diptych, diurnal, docket, election returns, engagement book, ephemeral, ephemeris, evergreen, exotic, flowering plant, fortnightly, fungus, gametophyte, gazette, gymnosperm, hebdomadal, hourly, hydrophyte, journal, ledger, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, magazine, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, menstrual, minutes, momentary, momently, monocot, monocotyl, monthly, newsmagazine, notebook, organ, pad, perennial, periodical, petty cashbook, pictorial, plant, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, proceedings, quarterly, quotidian, report, returns, review, scrapbook, scratch pad, seasonal, secular, seed plant, seedling, semestral, semiannual, semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, serial, slick magazine, spermatophyte, spiral notebook, sporophyte, statement, table, tablet, tally, tertian, thallophyte, the record, trade magazine, transactions, triennial, triptych, vascular plant, vegetable, weed, weekly, workbook, writing tablet, yearbook, yearly
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