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• A plant which completes its growth in one year but provides a bulb or other means of surviving winter.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

• [Greek] A plant which completes its growth in one year but provides a bulb or other means of surviving winter (bot.).

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
By J.H. Kenneth