perennial
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Is perennial a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (figurative)Examples: "His artwork has a perennial beauty."; "There, on perennial Adamant deſign'd, / The various Fortunes of your Race you'll find: […]"; "Good humour may be defined a habit of being pleaſed, a conſtant and perennial ſoftneſs of manner, eaſineſs of approach, and ſuavity of diſpoſition; […]"Synonyms: continual, enduring, everlasting, permanent, timeless, ageful, agelong, amaranthinefigurativelynot-comparable
2. (figurative)Examples: "a perennial candidate in elections"; "Change is a perennial theme in politics."; "Ludgate Hill is not Moirosi’s Mountain, but, after all, is only a gentle ascent of about half an inch in the foot, over a length of about two hundred yards, up which unshod omnibus horses would trot with a full load in any weather. Yet there it must remain, a chief thoroughfare in the heart of London, a perennial cause of complaint, and of fear, disgust, and injury to man and horse."Synonyms: repetitious, monotonous, perennial, recurrent, recurring, repeating, repetitional, repetitionaryfigurativelynot-comparable
3. (figurative)Synonyms: repetitious, monotonous, perennial, recurrent, recurring, repeating, repetitional, repetitionaryfigurativelynot-comparablerare
4. (botany) Of a plant: active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (botany) A plant that is active throughout the year, or has a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.Examples: "One would have supposed from the appearance of the country at the end of the first season after the eruption that practically all plants except the trees and bushes had been destroyed, and that revegetation must be due to new seedlings started on the ash. Such, however, is not the case. Excavation of the root systems of the new plants shows that they are old perennials which have come through the ash from the old soil."
2. (by extension)broadly
3. (by extension)Examples: "Some of the stars on our list are perennials who fill huge venues year after year after year, but there's also a returning superstar on our list of the hottest summer tours of 2019."broadly
Definition source: Wiktionary