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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perennial
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hardy perennial
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
favorite
▪ A few breakfast items are available early in the day, most notably biscuits with gravy, which is a perennial favorite.
plant
▪ A well defined form According to my dictionary, a tree can be any perennial plant having a self-supporting woody main stem.
▪ This perennial plant has leaves resembling those of some Cryptocoryne species.
▪ Twenty thousand perennial plants will bloom, including those in a display explaining how to use colour in the garden.
▪ In the submersed form R. humilis is a perennial plant cultivated and reproduced as E. quadricostatus.
problem
▪ But the perennial problem of providing for other children remained.
▪ His answer touched the perennial problems and pretensions of politicians.
▪ Crying Crying is a perennial problem with young children from babyhood on.
▪ Alison MacDonald on the perennial problem of child care.
▪ Did the women of the locality - and/or the imagination - constitute a perennial problem?
▪ Money and how to get hold of it were the perennial problems that refused to go away.
▪ Then came the perennial problem - do I put the neckband on next, or the front bands.
▪ The first was the perennial problem of the two-front war.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
perennial problems of the local economy
▪ High unemployment rates are a perennial problem in several European countries.
▪ Mickey Mouse remains a perennial favorite.
▪ Severe and unpredictable weather is a perennial danger for mountain climbers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Following the annual migration of food preparation to the outdoors is the perennial question: How shall these delicacies be washed down?
▪ For the hell of it l do an extra set of bun-twisters on my back, a perennial crowd-pleaser.
▪ In the United States apples and other perennial food crops constituted 16 % of the total value of food crops in 1998.
▪ John Munger, perennial troublemaker on the Board of Regents, attacked both affirmative action and tenure.
▪ Markets only work at the cost of perennial insecurity for producers.
▪ They may take a week or so to work, but can kill most deep-rooted perennial weeds without being persistent.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hardy
▪ We asked Volvo, famed for cars that outlast the hardiest perennials, to find a solution.
▪ A Astilbes are hardy herbaceous perennials which prefer a deep, moist, loamy soil.
▪ Coming on to a new series for the first time could be a daunting prospect even to the acting profession's hardy perennials.
▪ We aim to present a wide range of hardy perennials and shrubs providing plenty of interest throughout the year.
herbaceous
▪ New herbaceous perennials planted now will put on plenty of root growth before winter, giving a better display next year.
▪ Hellebores tend to be more expensive than other herbaceous perennials.
▪ Such fibrous-rooted subjects as bedding plants, lettuces and most herbaceous perennials will tolerate being transplanted.
▪ A Astilbes are hardy herbaceous perennials which prefer a deep, moist, loamy soil.
▪ I would like to fill it with herbaceous perennials, which would be suitable?
▪ Nevertheless I like to have a constant supply of fresh flowers in the house. Herbaceous perennials suit my purposes admirably.
▪ We have shrubs and herbaceous perennials which provide foliage for arrangements all year round as well as flowers in season.
▪ Summer's herbaceous perennials can quickly transform the garden scene with their vigorous growth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But many of the old scents were upon those newly flowering perennials.
▪ New herbaceous perennials planted now will put on plenty of root growth before winter, giving a better display next year.
▪ No selection of prickly perennials would be complete without Acanthus spinosus.
▪ Such fibrous-rooted subjects as bedding plants, lettuces and most herbaceous perennials will tolerate being transplanted.
▪ They are as melodies to the violinist, or perennials to a flower garden.
▪ This is also the time to experiment with some unusual perennials and ornamental grasses you might not buy normally.
▪ You might pair them with a new perennial vine, since the annual will supply the flowers as the perennial establishes itself.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perennial

Perennial \Per*en"ni*al\, n. (Bot.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.

Perennial

Perennial \Per*en"ni*al\, a. [L. perennis that lasts the whole year through; per through + annus year. See Per-, and Annual.]

  1. ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

  2. Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.

    The perennial existence of bodies corporate.
    --Burke.

  3. (Bot.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.

    Syn: Perpetual; unceasing; never failing; enduring; continual; permanent; uninterrupted.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perennial

1640s, "evergreen," formed in English from Latin perennis "lasting through the year (or years)," from per- "through" (see per) + annus "year" (see annual). Botanical sense of "Remaining alive through a number of years" is attested from 1670s; figurative meaning of "enduring, permanent" is from 1750. Related: Perennially. For vowel change, see biennial. The noun meaning "a perennial plant" is from 1763.

Wiktionary
perennial

a. 1 Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, or all the time. 2 (context botany of a plant English) Having a life cycle of more than two years. Compare (term: annual), (term: biennial). 3 (context figuratively English) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; permanent; unceasing; never failing. 4 (context figuratively English) enduring; lasting; timeless. 5 (context figuratively English) 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 (term: annual), (term: biennial).

WordNet
perennial

n. a plant lasting for three seasons or more

perennial
  1. adj. lasting three seasons or more; "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant" [ant: annual, biennial]

  2. lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; "perennial happiness"

  3. recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements" [syn: recurrent, repeated]

Wikipedia
Perennial (disambiguation)

A perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years.

Perennial may also refer to:

  • Harper Perennial, a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins

Usage examples of "perennial".

For that does not mean that we cease to exist, but that we become as perennial as the philosophia perennis.

Doubtless all of you are aware that Holland before the last war was one of the leading countries of the world in the propagation of bulbs, garden shrubs and flowering perennials.

They talked Blind Lake politics, including some speculation about Ray Scutter, and they worried over the perennial question of the siege.

China asters are too short in the stalk for cutting purposes, and many of the tall perennial starworts are neither bright nor well disposed.

In common phrase it is known by such names as Large, Tall, Saplin or Sapling, Giant, Meadow, Perennial Red, Red Perennial Meadow, Pea Vine, Zigzag, Wavy Stemmed, Soiling, and Cow clover or Cow grass.

His victory at the North American Championship at Fairbanks began a fierce but gentlemanly rivalry with perennial champion and Alaskan Native George Attla.

Governor, has fallen into the company of one Algol, a Freethinker, a grotesque, a perennial problem on the street.

He was stuck with the alieni st perennial problem: human mind-sickness was impossible to understand.

Now, Andi just nodded at each point--the subject was perennial, better silence than losing another round.

The solitudes of Asia and Africa were once covered with flourishing cities, whose populousness, and even whose existence, was derived from such artificial supplies of a perennial stream of fresh water.

These sentimental plants breathe something of the longing of the maiden who sits in the Sunday evenings of summer on the lonesome front doorstone, singing the hymns of the saints, and perennial as the myrtle that grows thereby.

The soft breezes that fanned the Blessed Isles and played through the perennial summer of Elysium blew upon no infant brows.

Has not God, the all loving Author who composed the sweet poem of Man and Nature, written at the close a reconciling Elysium wherein these pure lovers, the fond Narcissus and his echo mate, shall wander in perennial bliss, their embracing forms mirrored in unruffled fountains?

Nonetheless, the life of cool season plants assist in feeding the browsers and grass eaters during the cold winter months and forbs such as filaree and the cool season perennial grasses help cover the exposed soil when other plants have died back because of the cold.

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