This refers to a plant that normally completes its entire life cycle in one year or less. Cannabis is a highly adaptive annual plant that grows throughout temperate and tropical zones worldwide.
Annual may refer to:
- Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year
- Annual plant
- Annual report
- Annual giving
- Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco
- Annuals (band), a musical group
English
Etymology
First attested around 1382, borrowed from Late Latin annuālem, annuālis, related to Latin annālis, adjective form of annus (“year”). Used to categorize plants since 1710.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæn.ju.əl/, /ˈæn.jəl/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈæn.ju.əl/
- (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): /ˈænɪu̯.əl/
- Rhymes: -ænjuəl, -ænjəl
Adjective
annual (not comparable)
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