Helen Fenton

Biennial: Definition and part of speech

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Biennial

  1. n. A plant which exists or lasts for two years.
  2. a. Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
  3. a. Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
  4. n. Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bier: Definition and part of speech

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Bier

  1. n. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.
  2. n. A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bifarious: Definition and part of speech

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Bifarious

  1. a. Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.
  2. a. Twofold; arranged in two rows.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.