perennial
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Some gardeners make sure a perennial is always "performing."
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- adjective Lasting or active through the year or through many years.
- adjective Lasting an indefinitely long time; enduring: perennial happiness.
- adjective Appearing again and again; recurrent. See Synonyms at continual.
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- The public waked up to the sufficiently obvious fact that the Government was in its usual state -- perennial unreadiness for war. — An Autobiography
- The value of Dickens 'works is perennial, and Browne's illustrations represent the art fashion of a time only. — Life of Charles Dickens
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Some gardeners make sure a perennial is always "performing."
— daytondailynews.com - News -
The gardener's definition of a perennial is an herbaceous plant that lives for more than two years.
— Summit Daily News - Top Stories - It's like a perennial: comes back every year. — Jed the Dead
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- Latin perennis (per-, throughout; see per- + annus, year; see at- in Indo-European roots) + -al1.
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/ (pə-rĕnˈē-əl)/
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