Crossword-Solution: BIENNIAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Biennial | a. | Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election. |
| Biennial | a. | Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second. |
| Biennial | n. | Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination. |
| Biennial | n. | A plant which exists or lasts for two years. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “BIENNIAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like House races | 1 answer |
| Poison hemlock or Queen Anne's lace | 1 answer |
| Plant with a two-year life cycle | 1 answer |
| Plant that lives two years | 1 answer |
| PLANT that springs one year, and flowers, fructifies, and perishes the next | 1 answer |
| PLANT living two years | 1 answer |
| Occurring every other year | 1 answer |
| Like onions and parsley | 1 answer |
| Like national elections | 1 answer |
| Two-yearly | 1 answer |
| Happening once in two years. | 1 answer |
| Happening every other year | 1 answer |
| GROWING for two years | 1 answer |
| Describing H.R. elections | 1 answer |
| recurring every two years | 2 answers |
| every two years | 2 answers |
| occurring every two years | 2 answers |
| Like congressional elections | 2 answers |
| Like House elections | 2 answers |
| Lasting two years | 2 answers |
| APPEARING every two years | 2 answers |
| OCCURRING every second year | 3 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BIENNIAL (5)
Bodies of young men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty were engaged in making biennial peregrinations of the country.
The Constitutions of the American States reserve to the People the exercise of the rights of Sovereignty; by the annual, or biennial elections of their Governours, Senators, & Representatives; and by empowering their own Representatives to impeach the greatest officers of the State, before the Senators who are also chosen by themselves.
And nothing but the fear of resistance and the sense of shame preserves the freedom of the most democratic communities from the encroachments of their annual and biennial delegates.
This multiplication of joys--and their attendant worries--is something that Wellesley has to take measures to guard against, and the faculty has worked out a scheme of biennial rotatory festivities which since 1911-1912 has eased the pressure of revelry in May and June, as well as throughout the winter months.
The stalks seem to be biennial institutions; and as they get about their growth one year, and bear the next year, and then die, and the winters here nearly always kill them, unless you take them into the house (which is inconvenient if you have a family of small children), it is very difficult to induce the plant to flower and fruit.
Quotes with BIENNIAL (3)
We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1942–2023).