"circannual" meaning in English

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          "text": "Light pollution can interfere with the circannual migration of birds.",
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          "ref": "1956, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Report [80-114], [1956], page 11:",
          "text": "[…] because morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease also reveal statistically significant circadian and circannual rhythms.",
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          "ref": "2000, Martin Hume Johnson, Barry J. Everitt, Essential Reproduction, page 110:",
          "text": "Circannual rhythms control reproductive function in seasonal breeders.",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Joseph S. Takahashi, Fred W. Turek, Robert Y. Moore, Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, page 523:",
          "text": "Seasonal variations in locomotor activity are generated by a circannual clock […].",
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        "Of biological processes: having or occurring in annual cycles or periods"
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