two-year

1. 1.

   having a life cycle lasting two seasons

   “a biennial life cycle”

   “parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals”

   Synonymsbiennial

   botany

Questions about two-year

What does two-year mean?

two-year means "having a life cycle lasting two seasons".

How many syllables are in two-year?

two-year has 2 syllables: two-y-ear. The stress falls on "two-y".

What is another word for two-year?

Close synonyms include biennial. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is two-year a common word?

two-year is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.