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| annuity |
a regular annual income paid at fixed intervals and produced by money invested or by an insurance contract. [2 definitions] |
| candytuft |
any of several annual plants that bear tufted flowers of white, red, or purple. |
| Chautauqua |
an annual summer program, in this village, of educational and recreational concerts, lectures, and the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| cheat |
an annual brome grass, originally native to Europe but now a weed in wheat-growing regions worldwide; chess. [1/11 definitions] |
| corn cockle |
an annual flowering plant that bears pinkish flowers and poisonous seeds and is considered a weed. |
| cowpea |
an annual vine plant that bears long seed pods, grown in the southern United States as feed for domestic animals and as a fertilizer. [1/2 definitions] |
| etesian |
of or designating the annual northerly summer winds of the Mediterranean. |
| Iditarod |
an annual dogsled race in the U.S. state of Alaska run along a 1,160-mile route between the cities of Anchorage and Nome. |
| impatiens |
a common flowering annual plant, related to the balsam and bearing small flat flowers in white or various shades of pink and red. |
| Indian tobacco |
a poisonous North American annual, related to the bellflower, that bears light blue flowers and puffed seed pods. |
| interannual |
combined form of annual. |
| jimson weed |
a poisonous annual of the nightshade family with foul-smelling leaves, prickly fruit, and trumpet-shaped purplish or white flowers. |
| Job's-tears |
(used with a sing. verb) an annual tropical grass that bears hard, beadlike seeds containing edible grains. |
| Kentucky Derby |
the first of three annual U.S. horse races known as the Triple Crown. |
| lamb's-quarters |
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) an annual weed of the goosefoot family having mealy leaves and bearing clusters of small green flowers; pigweed. |
| lentil |
an annual legume, related to the pea, that bears such seeds. [1/2 definitions] |
| lettuce |
any of several varieties of a common, edible annual plant that has large, crisp leaves. [1/2 definitions] |
| lobelia |
any of various annual or perennial bellflowers bearing clusters of variously colored and irregularly shaped flowers. |
| opium poppy |
a Eurasian annual poppy having grayish-green leaves and bearing large white, red, pink, or purple flowers, and oily seeds, the unripe pods of which may be harvested for their opium-containing sap. |
| Osiris |
the ancient Egyptian god of the lower world and judge of the dead whose annual resurrection was believed to personify nature's yearly renewal. |
| pennant |
the annual championship, or the flag symbolizing it, in a professional baseball league. [1/3 definitions] |
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