pauciennial

English

Alternative forms

• paucennial (rare)

Etymology

New Latin pauciennis + English -ial, after -ennial

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(ˌ)pɔːsɪˈɛnɪəl/

Noun

pauciennial (not comparable)

1. (chiefly botany) Recurring once every few years.
   • 1955, Tyge W. Böcher, Kai Larsen, Knud Rahn, Experimental and Cytological Studies on Plant Species: II. Trifolium arvense and some other Pauciennial Herbs (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Skrifter; 8, № 3), Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, main title:

     Experimental and Cytological Studies on Plant Species
     II. Trifolium arvense and some other Pauciennial Herbs

   • 1998, Harald Kürschner, Shahina A. Ghazanfar, “Bryophytes and Lichens”, in Shahina A. Ghazanfar, Martin Fisher, editors, Vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (Geobotany; 25), Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V., →DOI, →ISBN, § 5.1.4.1, pages 110–111:

     The Tortula-Crossidium micro-zone (Figures 5.5) is dominated by acrocarpous mosses with a colonist strategy. Characteristic taxa, mainly of the pottioid genera, have a moderately short life-span (pauciennial, i.e. 1–3 years with a resting stage as spores, to pluriennial, i.e. several years, with seasonality of the gametophyte less distinct) and build predominantly short-turfs or bulbiformous solitary plants on the clayey-sandy crusts.

Translations

recurring every few years