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The United States official "Biennial Register."
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A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
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Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.
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Once in two years.
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A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.
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Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
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A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.
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A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
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A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.
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An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
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A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
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A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.
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Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
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A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.
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Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
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Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
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The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.
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