Crossword clues for perennial
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 \Per*en"ni*al\, a. [L. perennis that lasts the whole year through; per through + annus year. See Per-, and Annual.]
ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.
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Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
The perennial existence of bodies corporate.
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(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
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
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
n. a plant lasting for three seasons or more
Wikipedia
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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