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adjective

Perennial adj.

Lasting or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.

Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing. "The perennial existence of bodies corporate."

(Bot.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.

Synonyms: Perpetual; unceasing; never failing; enduring; continual; permanent; uninterrupted.

noun

Perennial n. (Bot.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.

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Etymology of 'Perennial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Perennial" Quotes from Famous Books

... The Live Oak grows in the fresh Water Ponds and Swamps, by the River sides, and in low Ground overflown with Water; and is a perennial Green. ...

— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson

... attacker, who immediately ran away. Through the middle of the shrieking crowd, which blocked his way in all directions, the crying humpback pursued his schoolmate. Perhaps he would have reached Mechenmal if the perennial fourth-year pupil Spinoza Spass hadn't suddenly grasped his hump as if with a hook. Spinoza Spass grinned comfortably and maliciously into the monkey-shaped, longingly apathetic face, as he propelled the little despairing Kohn like a weight slowly through ...

— The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein

... philosophers and sociologists, that military peoples subordinate woman to a tyrannical regime of domestic servitude, is wholly disproved by the history of Rome. If there was ever a time when the Roman woman lived in a state of perennial tutelage, under the authority of man from birth to death—of the husband, if not of the father, or, if not of father or husband, of the guardian—that ...

— The Women of the Caesars • Guglielmo Ferrero

... great poem but of Christian Apologetics down to our own day, when Pope Leo XIII directed that all Catholic seminaries and universities implant the doctrine expounded by Thomas, Angel of the Schools. A philosopher whose breadth and lucidity of mind gave such perennial interest to a system of thought that it is still followed more generally than that of any other school of philosophy—taught in the regular course even at Oxford, Harvard, Columbia—such a philosopher could have left the impress of his genius upon seven succeeding centuries only if his ...

— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery

... scourge and reins, she lash'd the mules. They trampled loud the soil, straining to draw 100 Herself with all her vesture; nor alone She went, but follow'd by her virgin train. At the delightful rivulet arrived Where those perennial cisterns were prepared With purest crystal of the fountain fed Profuse, sufficient for the deepest stains, Loosing the mules, they drove them forth to browze On the sweet herb beside the dimpled flood. The carriage, next, light'ning, ...

— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer

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