Annual

1. (adj) Happening once every year. 2. (adj) Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual. 3. (n) An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication. 4. (n) A medical checkup taking place once a year. 5. (adj) (botany, of a plant) Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season; e.g. beans, corn, marigold. See Annual plant in Wikipedia. Compare biennial, perennial. 6. (n) (botany) An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial. 7. (adj) (entomology) Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies. 8. (n) (theater) A pantomime taking place once a year.