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perennial
Part of speech: AdjectiveLasting through the year; as, a perennial spring of water; lasting more than two years; as, perennial plants; enduring; unceasing; as, perennial youth.
Part of speech: NounA plant that lives from year to year.
Part of speech: AdverbPerennially.
Usage examples "perennial":- This process of personification is the perennial fount whence have gushed the greater number of myths, an enormous mass of superstitions, and a large number of esthetic productions. - "Essay on the Creative Imagination", Th. Ribot.
- A region where grey twilight ever descends, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars. - "Ulysses", James Joyce.
- Far on into the night, when ghostly noises echo through the sleeping palace, " that ever- gushing and perennial fount of natural waters," as Scott has described the genius of Byron, pours forth in reckless profusion. - "A Day with Lord Byron", May Clarissa Gillington.