Perennial Definition

pə-rĕnē-əl
perennials
adjective
Lasting or continuing for a long time.
Perennial youth.
Webster's New World
Appearing again and again or year after year; recurrent.
A perennial contender for the championship.
American Heritage
Lasting or active throughout the whole year.
Webster's New World
Returning or becoming active again and again; perpetual.
Webster's New World
Having a life cycle of more than two years: said esp. of herbaceous plants that produce flowers and seed from the same root structure year after year.
Webster's New World
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noun
perennials
A perennial plant.
Webster's New World
Something that recurs or seems to recur on a yearly or continual basis.
American Heritage
A person or thing that is present continuously or reappears regularly.
Webster's New World

A perennial plant; a plant that is active throughout the year or survives for more than two growing seasons. Compare annual, biennial.

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Other Word Forms of Perennial

Noun

Singular:
perennial
Plural:
perennials

Origin of Perennial

  • Latin perennis (per- throughout per–) (annus year at- in Indo-European roots) –al

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 1644, from Latin perennis (“lasting through the whole year"), from per- (“through") + annus (“year").

    From Wiktionary

Perennial Sentence Examples

  • Twining plants with running perennial roots.

  • There are no rivers and few perennial streams in the islands.

  • It is really a biennial, but grows itself so freely as to become perennial in the garden.

  • In this operation all stones larger than a man's fist must be taken out, and all roots of trees and of perennial weeds carefully cleared away.

  • Division, or partition, is usually resorted to in the case of tufted growing plants, chiefly perennial herbs; they may be evergreen, as chamomile or thrift, or when dormant may consist only of underground crowns, as larkspur or lily-of-thevalley; but in either case the old tufted plant being dug up may be divided into separate pieces, each furnished with roots, and, when replanted, generally starting on its own account without much check.

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Words Starting With

PPEPER

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LALIAL

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With P9 Letter Words Ending With L