perennial

Meanings

Adjective

• Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, or all the time.
• Having a life cycle of more than two years.
• Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; never failing.
• Enduring; lasting; timeless.
• Recurrent; appearing or recurring again and again.

Noun

• A perennial plant; a plant that is active throughout the year or survives for more than two growing seasons.

Origin

• 1644, from Latin perennis ("lasting through the whole year") (itself from per- + annus) + ; surface analysis per- + -ennial.