1. Adjective
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
2. Adjective
Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
3. Adjective
Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
4. Noun
A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
5. Noun
Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
6. Noun
A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
7. Noun
(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
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