annualnoun(PLANT)

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acanthus
air plant
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Andromeda
angiosperm
early
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grower
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mustard
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starter plug
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perennial | American Dictionary

perennial
adjective
us/pəˈren·i·əl/

perennialadjective (TIME)

lasting a long time, or happening repeatedly or all the time:
Each year, the nation’s marketers try to answer the perennial question, What do consumers really want?
perennial
noun[ C ]
us/pəˈren·i·əl/

perennialnoun[C] (PLANT)

a plant that lives for more than two years

Examples of perennial

perennial
The plants are tough perennials, less than a metre high.
While it may be conducive to bean growth, deep hoeing may be detrimental to bananas or other perennials associated with the trees.
Herbaceous perennials with type 1 seed banks should be reintroduced by sowing.
In other words, the pressure of disease has not led to the downfall of perennials.
If perennials can fix an adequate amount of carbon to make them viable crops, the question becomes one of harvest index rather than trade-off.
However, there is a difference in the response for annuals and perennials crops.
The project also entails helping local people near the camps to plant perennials such as coffee trees and oil palms.
In the dry season the green perennials were tested.
Over the same time period, income from perennials remained fairly constant, while income from annual crops fell.
Coffee is indicative; policy distortions have affected other perennials in similar ways.
Furthermore, in an agricultural setting, the risk of poor establishment-frequently an issue with annual crops-is avoided in the years when perennials are regrowing.
The framework also explains how high-seed-yielding herbaceous perennials could be developed through selection, despite their rarity in natural ecosystems.
Nutrient resorption from senescing leaves of perennials: are there general patterns?
The accumulation of detrimental pathogens in plant rhizospheres can affect both annuals and perennials in natural and agroecosystems.
In interpreting this result, one should keep in mind that the area for annual crops is far larger than for perennials.
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