LONG-LIVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long-lived mean? 

• LONG-LIVED (adjective)
  The adjective LONG-LIVED has 1 sense:

1. existing for a long time

  Familiarity information: LONG-LIVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG-LIVED (adjective)

Comparative: longer-lived   
Superlative: longest-lived   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Existing for a long time

Synonyms:

durable; lasting; long-lasting; long-lived

Context example:

a long-lasting friendship

Similar:

long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)

 Context examples 

Voyager's visit to the Neptune system revealed previously unseen features of Neptune itself, such as the Great Dark Spot, a massive storm similar to, but not as long-lived, as Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

Two key features of the immune system are the clonal expansion of B cells and T cells in response to antigens, and the potentiation of future immune responses by long-lived memory cells.

(OX40 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The long-lived rover surpassed the marathon mark during a drive of 46.5 meters.

(Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance, NASA)

A thymocyte-derived lymphocyte of immunological importance that is long-lived (months to years) and is responsible for cell-mediated immunity.

(Murine T-Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

CFCs are long-lived chemical compounds that eventually rise into the stratosphere, where they are broken apart by the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation, releasing chlorine atoms that go on to destroy ozone molecules.

(First Direct Proof of Ozone Hole Recovery Due to Chemicals Ban, NASA)

By viewing the vortex a second time, the new Hubble images confirm that OPAL really detected a long-lived feature.

(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)

Most ULXs are typically long-lived because they're created by a dense object, like a black hole, that "feeds" on the star for an extended period of time.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Drug addiction is associated with long-term behavioral changes, suggesting a long-lived transcriptional regulator that responds to chronic drug exposure might cause long-term changes in neuronal function.

(FosB Drug-induction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Long-lived trees, such as pines from high elevations and other conifers found across the high-northern latitude boreal forests, can store carbon for many centuries.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

Furthermore, this vaccine may induce long-lived memory T cells that could fight recurring cancer cells. gp96-Ig is constructed by replacing the KDEL retention sequence of gp96, normally an endoplasmatic reticulum-resident chaperone peptide, with the Fc portion of mouse and human IgG1.

(Gp96-Ig-secreting Allogeneic Tumor-Cell Vaccine HS110, NCI Thesaurus)