What is "annuals"

Usage examples of "annuals".

Inside were Logan and Lamar, as his first lieutenant, and nineteen other young men, annuals and perennials.

But even the annuals are given special blessings of extraordinary good health and above-average appearance, and sometimes they too are spectacularly beautiful, so no one is ever certain which species he or she is—that’s the beauty of it—and to hold on to youth and vigor for so long, isn’t that alone a miracle in itself?

Many Fertile Crescent plants, especially species of cereals and pulses, have adapted in a way that renders them useful to humans: they are annuals, meaning that the plant itself dries up and dies in the dry season.

Because of this ease of domestication, big-seeded annuals were the first, or among the first, crops developed not only in the Fertile Crescent but also in China and the Sahel.

The combination of these two factors—a high diversity of species and a high percentage of annuals—means that western Eurasia's Mediterranean zone is the one with by far the highest diversity of annuals.

The combination of these two factors—a high diversity of species and a high percentage of annuals—means that western Eurasia’s Mediterranean zone is the one with by far the highest diversity of annuals.

The combination of these two factors--a high diversity of species and a high percentage of annuals--means that western Eurasia's Mediterranean zone is the one with by far the highest diversity of annuals.

When Walt had found time to do it she could not imagine, but since she last looked he had laid out formal beds on either side of the path leading from the back door to the terrace steps, and had planted some of them with pansies, those toughest of early-blooming annuals.

Lessons were over, and I was reading a marvellous story in one of my favourite annuals: my uncle had so taught me from infancy the right handling of books, that he would have trusted me with the most valuable in his possession.

The books were mostly in old and dingy bindings, but there were a few to attract the eyes of a child--especially some annuals, in red skil, or embossed leather, or, most bewitching of all, in paper, protected by a tight case of the same, from which, with the help of a ribbon, you drew out the precious little green volume, with its gilt edges and lovely engravings--one of which in particular I remember--a castle in the distance, a wood, a ghastly man at the head of a rearing horse, and a white, mist-like, fleeting ghost, the cause of the consternation.