Perennial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lasting or active through the year or through many years.
  • adj. Lasting an indefinitely long time; enduring: perennial happiness.
  • adj. Appearing again and again; recurrent. See Synonyms at continual.
  • adj. Botany Living three or more years.
  • n. Botany A perennial plant.
  • n. Something that recurs or seems to recur on a yearly or continual basis: "that hardy perennial, the budget deficit” ( David S. Broder).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, or all the time.
  • adj. Having a life cycle of more than two years. Compare annual, biennial.
  • adj. Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; permanent; unceasing; never failing.
  • adj. Enduring; lasting; timeless.
  • adj. Recurrent; appearing or recurring again and again.
  • n. A perennial plant; a plant that is active throughout the year or survives for more than two growing seasons. Compare annual, biennial.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. ing or continuing through the year.
  • adj. Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
  • adj. Continuing more than two years.
  • n. A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lasting or continuing without cessation through the year, or through many years: as, a perennial spring or fountain.
  • Continuing without stop or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never-failing; everlasting.
  • In zoology, growing continually: noting teeth which have the pulp-cavity open, and grow indefinitely from persistent pulps: as, the perennial incisors of a rodent.
  • In botany, continuing more than two years: as, a perennial stem or root.
  • In entomology, forming colonies which are continued from year to year, as the ants, bees, and termites; also, living more than one year, as an insect.
  • n. In botany, a plant which lives and blossoms or fructifies year after year.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal
  • n. (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more
  • adj. recurring again and again
  • adj. lasting three seasons or more
    • Equivalent
    long    continual   
    Form
    perennially   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unceasing    continual    perpetual    permanent    never failing   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bicentennial    biennial    centennial    decennial    millennial   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    perpetual    eternal    inexhaustible    hardy    unending   
     
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