perennial
pronunciation
How to pronounce perennial in British English:
UK [pəˈreniəl]
How to pronounce perennial in American English:
US [pəˈreniəl]
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- Noun:
- a plant lasting for three seasons or more
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- Adjective:
- lasting three seasons or more
- lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal
- recurring again and again
Word Origin
- perennial (adj.)
- 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.
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Example
- 1. The top four were all in japan , including tokyo as the perennial no. 1 .
- 2. This evergreen perennial grows in mounds up to 2 feet tall and 2 feet wide .
- 3. Traffic had already backed up at the east coast 's perennial chokepoint : the interstate 95 toll plaza in newark , del . , Where construction is adding to the bottleneck .
- 4. These perennial visitors to jerusalem fly in from africa in late february , the first harbingers of spring .
- 5. But growth amid global misery does not explain everything : the biggest falls in happiness also occurred in large emerging markets , in indonesia , brazil and-a perennial miseryguts-russia .