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perenniation

noun

Etymology

From perennial + -ation.

  1. derived from *h₂et-✻ — “to go”
  2. borrowed from perennis — “lasting through the whole year or for several years, perennial; continual, everlasting, perpetual”
  3. suffixed as perenniation — “perennial + ation”

Definitions

  1. The process or property of living for more than one year.

    • Rees et al. (1999) found that in O. illyricum bolting is dependent on rosettes reaching a critical size, so that stresses such as rosette herbivory may reduce plant size and thus promote perenniation of rosettes.
    • Perenniation of phytoplankton in rivers arises from surviving periphytic and benthic populations, often of backwater areas (Reynolds and Descy, 1996).
    • It is always perennial, has a woody lignotuber that aids perenniation and regrowth after frost, fire or flood, it can produce large yields of very nutritious seed, and it thrives on clay soils.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA