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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, bearing fruit repeatedly upon the same stem: applied to such plants as have perennial stems.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Bearing flowers and fruit on the stem or branches from year to year (as ordinary shrubs and trees)

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