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1. Lasting three seasons or more
   "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant"
    
2. Lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal
   "perennial happiness"
    
3. Recurring again and again
   "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"
   - recurrent, repeated

1. (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more

Derived forms: perennials

See also: continual, long, perennate, perennially

Type of: flora, plant, plant life

Antonym: annual, biennial

Encyclopedia: Perennial