perennate

perennate
/per"euh nayt', peuh ren"ayt/, v.i., perennated, perennating. Bot.
to survive from season to season for an indefinite number of years.
[1615-25; < L perennatus, ptp. of perennare to continue for a long time, deriv. of perennis; see PERENNIAL, -ATE1]

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