PERENNIAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does perennial mean?
• PERENNIAL (noun)
The noun PERENNIAL has 1 sense:
1. a plant lasting for three seasons or more
Familiarity information: PERENNIAL used as a noun is very rare.
• PERENNIAL (adjective)
The adjective PERENNIAL has 3 senses:
1. lasting three seasons or more
2. lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal
3. recurring again and again
Familiarity information: PERENNIAL used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• PERENNIAL (noun)
Meaning:
A plant lasting for three seasons or more
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("perennial" is a kind of...):
flora; plant; plant life (a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perennial"):
button snakeroot; Eryngium yuccifolium; rattlesnake master; rattlesnake's master (coarse prickly perennial eryngo of United States thought to cure rattlesnake bite)
• PERENNIAL (adjective)
Meaning:
Lasting three seasons or more
Context example:
the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Antonym:
annual (completing its life cycle within a year)
biennial (having a life cycle lasting two seasons)
Meaning:
Lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal
Context example:
perennial happiness
Similar:
long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)
Meaning:
Recurring again and again
Synonyms:
recurrent; repeated; perennial
Context example:
perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements
Similar:
continual (seemingly without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series)
