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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Perennial \Per*en"ni*al\, noun (Bot.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Perennial \Per*en"ni*al\, adjective [L. perennis that lasts the whole year through; per through + annus year. See {Per-}, and {Annual}.]
1. ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.
2. Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
The perennial existence of bodies corporate. --Burke.
3. (Bot.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.
Syn: Perpetual; unceasing; never failing; enduring; continual; permanent; uninterrupted.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
perennial
adjective
1: lasting three seasons or more; "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant" [ant: {annual}, {biennial}]
2: lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; "perennial happiness"
3: recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements" [syn: {recurrent}, {repeated}]
noun: a plant lasting for three seasons or more
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "perennial": abiding, age-long, aged, amphibian, ancient, angiosperm, annual, antique, aquatic plant, articulated, biennial, catenated, ceaseless, chattering, chronic, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cosmopolite, cutting, cyclical, deciduous, deciduous plant, dicot, dicotyledon, direct, diuturnal, durable, endless, enduring, ephemeral, eternal, ever-blooming, ever-new, evergreen, everlasting, exotic, featureless, flowering plant, fungus, gametophyte, gapless, gymnosperm, half-hardy, hardy, hydrophyte, immediate, immortal, immutable, imperishable, incessant, indeciduous, interminable, intransient, inveterate, joined, jointless, lasting, lifelong, linked, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, machine gun, macrobiotic, monocot, monocotyl, monotonous, never-ending, never-failing, nonstop, of long duration, of long standing, old, oscillating, perdurable, perduring, periodic, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, plant, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, pulsating, rapid, recurrent, regular, remaining, repeated, repetitive, round-the-clock, running, seamless, seed plant, seedling, sempervirent, sempiternal, serried, smooth, spermatophyte, sporophyte, stable, staccato, staying, steadfast, steady, straight, stuttering, sustained, thallophyte, timeless, tough, triennial, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, undifferentiated, undying, unending, unfading, unfailing, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vascular plant, vegetable, vibrating, vital, weed
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