PERENNATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they perennate ... he / she / it perennates

Past simple: perennated

Past participle: perennated

-ing form: perennating

Meaning:

Survive from season to season, of plants

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "perennate" is one way to...):

endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on; survive (continue to live and avoid dying)

Sentence frame:

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Derivation:

perennation (the process of living through a number of years (as a perennial plant))

perennial ((botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more)