Usually means: Survive from season to season.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word perennate:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. perennate: Merriam-Webster
  2. perennate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perennate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. perennate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perennate: Vocabulary.com
  6. perennate: Wordnik
  7. perennate: Wiktionary
  8. perennate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. perennate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. perennate: Dictionary.com
  11. perennate: Rhymezone
  12. perennate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. perennate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. perennate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. perennate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perennate)

▸ verb:  (botany) To survive from one growing season to the next

Similar:
self-seed, autogerminate, mast, auxosporulate, arboresce, epiphytize, cocultivate, self, sporulate, pullulate, more...

Opposite:
ephemeral, transient, fleeting, temporary, short-lived

Types:
bulbs, rhizomes, tubers, corms, stolons, creeping stems, rootstocks, stem tubers, more...

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Similar:
self-seed, autogerminate, mast, auxosporulate, arboresce, epiphytize, cocultivate, self, sporulate, pullulate, more...

Opposite:
ephemeral, transient, fleeting, temporary, short-lived

Types:
bulbs, rhizomes, tubers, corms, stolons, creeping stems, rootstocks, stem tubers, more...



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