perennial

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  1. adjective Lasting or active through the year or through many years.
  2. adjective Lasting an indefinitely long time; enduring: perennial happiness.
  3. 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
  • 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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perpetual ·  eternal ·  inexhaustible ·  hardy ·  unending ·  annual ·  luxuriant ·  tropical ·  herbaceous ·  inward ·  unfailing ·  permanent
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin perennis (per-, throughout; see per- + annus, year; see at- in Indo-European roots) + -al1.

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  1. = Old French perennel = Spanish Portuguese perennal, from Latin perennis (later Italian Spanish Portuguese perenne = French pérenne), lasting the year through, lasting long, continual, everlasting, from per, through, + annus, year: see annual. Cf. biennial, etc.
 

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