Usually means: Lasts through seasons; returns annually.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word perennial:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. perennial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perennial: Merriam-Webster
  3. perennial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. perennial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perennial: Collins English Dictionary
  6. perennial: Vocabulary.com
  7. Perennial, perennial: Wordnik
  8. perennial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. perennial: Wiktionary
  10. perennial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. perennial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. perennial: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. perennial: Dictionary.com
  14. perennial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. perennial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Perennial (album), Perennial (disambiguation), Perennial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Perennial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. perennial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. perennial: Rhymezone
  20. Perennial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. perennial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. perennial: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. perennial: FreeDictionary.org
  24. perennial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. perennial: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perennial: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perennial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. perennial: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. Perennial: Medical dictionary
  4. perennial: Sound Alike Words
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Perennial, Perennial: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. perennial: Natural History Terms
  6. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)
  7. Perennial: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  2. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  3. PERENNIAL: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  4. Perennial: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

(Note: See perennially as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, for multiple years, or all the time.
adjective:  (figuratively)
adjective:  Continuing without cessation or intermission for several years, or for an undetermined or infinite period; neverending or never failing; perpetual, unceasing.
adjective:  Appearing or recurring again and again; recurrent.
adjective:  (rare) Appearing again each year; annual.
adjective:  (botany) Of a plant: active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.
noun:  (botany) A plant that is active throughout the year, or has a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A thing that lasts forever.
noun:  A person or thing (such as a problem) that appears or returns regularly.

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