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two-year

adj. having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals" [syn: biennial] [ant: perennial, annual]

Usage examples of "two-year".

Cruz enters negotiated plea of pass, of controlled substance in exchange for two-year max.

She toked big H and maryjane, was rumored to have financed her way through music school by pulling gang bangs, and played it hardcase during her two-year jolt at Tehachapi.

In school she was poor at almost everything except English, and the other girls told her she'd never get to university -- not even a two-year one -- because she was stupid, and never get a husband because she was an ugly hairy Ainu, and she'd grow up a poor widowed office lady like her mother.

All of this was an act of pure impulse, the missile sought for, found, and thrown before she had time to ensure the failure of the shot by reflecting on how unlikely it was that a woman who had gotten a D in the archery mod of her two-year college phys ed requirement could possibly hit a dog with an ashtray, especially when the dog was fifteen feet away and the hand she was throwing with happened to be handcuffed to a bedpost.

After a two-year tour with a Marine fighter squadron, flying Brewster Buffalo F2-As, he had been selected for multiengine training.

Even today, except in the most advanced organizations on both sides of the ideological curtain, one or two-year forecasts are regarded as "long-range planning.

On November 19, 1989, Ron began a two-year federal prison term for importing traditional Hindu smoking pipes (as he had for the past 15 years with the approval of Customs).

Regrettably the life insurance company found it convenient to believe the official version and denied my mother's claim, citing their two-year suicide clause.

Memorial and renowned for his pioneering achievements in various cardiovascular surgical procedures), and served the first three-quarters of her two-year residency without a hitch.

You know, there was a time I might have dismissed Fairmont State Community and Technical College of West Virginia's new two-year major in ballroom dancing as ridiculous.

Universities were always a good bet, but this Station had only a technical school and a two-year arts school.

Then, five years later, Edwina had taken on the identity of an unrelated two-year old child, Elizabeth Smith, who had suffered from xeroderma pigmentosum—.