perennial's Usage Examples:

In perennials the stem shows a regular increase in thickness each year by the addition of a new ring of wood outside the old one - for details of structure see Plants: Anatomy.

Some of their towns were built near large underground reservoirs, called cenotes, that afforded a perennial supply.

The temporary includes vetches, pulse, lupine, clover and trifolium; and the perennial, meadow-trefoil, lupinella, sulla (fledysarum coronarium), lucerne and darnel.

In Pliny they are a perennial colony settled on the western shore of the Dead Sea.

i), but generally perennial as in Primula, 2 (After Wossidlo.

It is almost identical with that, for in the growing days of June, when the rills are dry, the grass-blades are their channels, and from year to year the herds drink at this perennial green stream, and the mower draws from it betimes their winter supply.

One of the main innovations of RSF, request-scope programming, also solves another perennial bugbear with web frameworks which is the scoping issue.

PODOPHYLLIN, a drug obtained from the rhizome of the American mandrake or may apple, Podophyllum peltatum, an herbaceous perennial belonging to the natural order Berberidaceae, indigenous in woods in Canada and the United States.

Try the smoked whale carpaccio with chive sauce and salad!CHIVE (Allium Schoenoprasum), a hardy perennial plant, with small narrow bulbs tufted on short root-stocks and long cylindrical hollow leaves.

The Native Americans used this perennial herb to treat stomach upset and hemorrhoids.

land under perennial irrigation pays higher taxes than land not so irrigated (see below, Finance).

album is a handsome erect pyramidal perennial, 3 1/2 to 5 feet high, with large plaited leaves and yellowish-white flowers in dense spikes on the top of the stem, forming a large panicle.

Synonyms:

flora, button snakeroot, Eryngium yuccifolium, rattlesnake master, plant life, rattlesnake"s master, plant,

Antonyms:

unretentive, short,