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PERENNATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perennate mean?
• PERENNATE (verb)
The verb PERENNATE has 1 sense:
1. survive from season to season, of plants
Familiarity information: PERENNATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they perennate ... he / she / it perennates
Past simple: perennated
Past participle: perennated
-ing form: perennating
... he / she / it perennates Past simple: perennated
Past participle: perennated
-ing form: perennating
Sense 1
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:
Something ----s
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)
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