perenniation
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perenniation (uncountable)
- (botany) The process or property of living for more than one year.
- 2000, Neal R. Spencer, Proceedings of the X International Symposium on Biological Control:
- 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.
- 2001, Robert G. Wetzel, Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems, →ISBN, page 371:
- Perenniation of phytoplankton in rivers arises from surviving periphytic and benthic populations, often of backwater areas (Reynolds and Descy, 1996).
- 2016, John R Lazier, Nazeer Ahmad, Tropical Forage Legumes, →ISBN:
- 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.