different between biennial vs bittercress

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bienni(um) (“two-year period”) [from bis, bi- (“twice”) + annus (“year”)] + -al (suffix forming adjectives); surface analysis bi- +? -ennial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba???n??l/
• Rhymes: -?n??l

Adjective

biennial (not comparable)

1. Happening every two years.
2. Lasting for two years.

Synonyms

• biennary (uncommon); biannual (proscribed)

Related terms

• biennium
• biennially
• biannual, semiannual

Translations

Noun

biennial (plural biennials)

1. A plant that requires two years to complete its life-cycle, germinating and growing in its first year, then producing its flowers and fruit in its second year, after which it usually dies
2. An event that happens every two years

Translations

See also

• annual
• perennial

English

Etymology

bitter +? cress

Noun

bittercress (countable and uncountable, plural bittercresses)

1. Barbarea vulgaris (garden yellowrocket), a biennial herb native to Europe.
2. Any plant of the Cardamine genus, especially Cardamine bulbosa and Cardamine hirsuta.

Derived terms

• alpine bittercress (Cardamine bellidifolia)
• American bittercress (Cardamine rotundifolia)
• big western bittercress (Cardamine occidentalis)
• bittercress ragwort (Packera cardamine)
• Blue Ridge bittercress (Cardamine flagellifera)
• Brewer's bittercress (Cardamine breweri)
• bulbous bittercress (Cardamine bulbosa)
• Carr's bittercress (Cardamine carrii)
• cliff bittercress (Cardamine rupicola)
• Constance's bittercress (Cardamine constancei)
• coralroot bittercress (Cardamine bulbifera)
• hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta)
• heartleaf bittercress (Cardamine cordifolia)
• Japanese bittercress (Cardamine regeliana)
• largeseed bittercress (Cardamine macrocarpa)
• limestone bittercress (Cardamine douglassii)
• little western bettercress (Cardamine oligosperma)
• Long's bittercress (Cardamine longii)
• narrowleaf bittercress (Cardamine impatiens)
• Pennsylvania bittercress (Cardamine pensylvanica)
• purple bittercress (Cardamine purpurea)
• Saddle Mountain bittercress (Cardamine pattersonii)
• roadside bittercress (Cardamine debilis)
• Richardson's bittercress (Cardamine digitata)
• sand bittercress (Cardamine parviflora)
• seaside bittercress (Cardamine angulata)
• serpentine bittercress (Cardamine pachystigma)
• small mountain bittercress (Cardamine clematitis)
• small-leaf bittercress (Cardamine microphylla)
• streambank bittercress (Cardamine micranthera)
• Texas bittercress (Cardamine macrocarpa Brandegee var. texana)
• Willamette Valley bittercress (Cardamine penduliflora)
• woodland bittercress (Cardamine flexuosa)

Translations

References

• bittercress at USDA Plants database