- semiannual: occurring or payable twice each year
- (biannually) twice a year; "we hold our big sale biannually"
- A serial publication issued twice a year.
- Anything that occurs once every other year is considered to be bi-annual. [See: All System Track Finals.]
- Publications or events appearing twice a year. Compare with biennial, every two years.
- This type of timeshare may be used every other year.
- A plant whose life cycle extends over two growing seasons. The first year the seed germinates and produces a seedling that usually remains short of the winter. The second growing season the seedling rapidly grows, flowers, produces seeds and then dies.