Perennial Synonyms and Antonyms

pə-rĕnē-əl
Intended to last for a considerable time
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sustained
Appearing again and again or year after year; recurrent:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. continual

Words Related to Perennial

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. continue
  2. half-hardy
  3. knawel
  4. self-seeders
  5. clump-forming
  6. rhizomatous
  7. monocarpic
  8. herbaceous
  9. geraniums
  10. verbascums
  11. low-growing

Perennial Sentence Examples

  • Twining plants with running perennial roots.

  • There are no rivers and few perennial streams in the islands.

  • It is really a biennial, but grows itself so freely as to become perennial in the garden.

  • In this operation all stones larger than a man's fist must be taken out, and all roots of trees and of perennial weeds carefully cleared away.

  • Division, or partition, is usually resorted to in the case of tufted growing plants, chiefly perennial herbs; they may be evergreen, as chamomile or thrift, or when dormant may consist only of underground crowns, as larkspur or lily-of-thevalley; but in either case the old tufted plant being dug up may be divided into separate pieces, each furnished with roots, and, when replanted, generally starting on its own account without much check.

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