Long-lived meaning

The insect showed the phenomenon of long-lived luminescence.

Subdivision of the continental portion is beset with great difficulties, and none of the numerous attempts have proved long-lived.

The second settlement made by his expedition at Buenos Aires was even less successful and long-lived than the first.

An English clergyman named William Jackson, a man of infamous notoriety who had long lived in France, where he had imbibed revolutionary opinions, came to Ireland to nogotiate between the French committee of public safety and the United Irishmen.

The hen is still more soberly attired; but it is perhaps the siskin's disposition to familiarity that makes it so favourite a captive, and, 'though as a cage-bird it is not ordinarily long-lived, it readily adapts itself to the loss of liberty.