perennialize

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verb

To return year after year as a perennial.

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Meanings

verbperennialize (third-person singular simple present perennializes, present participle perennializing, simple past and past participle perennialized)

present singular third person perennializes · participle present perennializing · participle past perennialized · past perennialized

  1. intransitivebiologyTo return year after year as a perennial.

    I recommend spending your bulb budget on bulbs that will perennialize in the garden, and if you need big tulips, purchase a bunch from the local florist.

    2000, Tom Peace, Sunbelt Gardening: Success in Hot-Weather Climates, page 64
  2. transitivebiologyTo make perennial.

    The quest here is one of several around the world, to perennialize everything from sorghum to chickpeas to sunflowers.

    2007 June 5, Jim Robbins, “A Perennial Search for Perfect Wheat”, in New York Times

Origin

From perennial + -ize.

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Translations

Finnish perennoida
  • perennoidato return as perennial
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APA

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Chicago

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