triennials

Every third year

Triennials are events or publications occurring every three years.

Art triennials—large-scale exhibitions held on a three-year cycle—have proliferated alongside biennials as major international showcases: the Asia Pacific Triennial, the Yokohama Triennale.

Plants described as triennial complete their life cycle in three years, though this sense is rare compared to annual or biennial.

exhibitions

art shows

Public displays of creative works

curators · installations · pavilions · international · galleries · commissions · catalogues · openings · retrospectives · emerging artists

periodicity

cycle

Repeating sequence of events

rotation · assessment · review · planning · evaluation · milestone · anniversary · frequency · calendar · renewal

plants

agave

Spiny desert succulent

hollyhock · parsley · carrots · beets · celery · blooming · seeding · rosettes · bolting · perennials

Opposites
temporal frequency

triennialsannuals

Single-season plants

dailies · weeklies · monthlies · biennials · quarterlies

regularity/occurrence pattern

triennialsone-offs

Singular, unrepeated instances

irregulars

Family

triennial, triennially

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