1 continuing for a very long time; happening again and again:
the perennial problem of water shortage * that perennial favourite, hamburgers * Colonialism in different forms is a perennial theme of history.
2 (of plants) living for two years or more
perennially adverb:
a perennially popular subject
noun any plant that lives for more than two years
compareANNUAL, BIENNIAL
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