PERENNIAL


Meaning of PERENNIAL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pəreniəl ]

( perennials)

1.

You use perennial to describe situations or states that keep occurring or which seem to exist all the time; used especially to describe problems or difficulties.

...the perennial urban problems of drugs and homelessness...

= constant

ADJ : usu ADJ n

• per‧en‧ni‧al‧ly

Both services are perennially short of staff.

ADV : usu ADV adj

2.

A perennial plant lives for several years and has flowers each year.

...a perennial herb with greenish-yellow flowers.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

Perennial is also a noun.

...a low-growing perennial.

N-COUNT

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.