perennialize
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perennialize (third-person singular simple present perennializes, present participle perennializing, simple past and past participle perennialized)
- (botany, intransitive) To return year after year as a perennial.
- 2000, Tom Peace, Sunbelt Gardening: Success in Hot-Weather Climates, page 64:
- 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.
- (botany, transitive) To make perennial.
- 2007 June 5, Jim Robbins, “A Perennial Search for Perfect Wheat”, in New York Times[1]:
- The quest here is one of several around the world, to perennialize everything from sorghum to chickpeas to sunflowers.
Translations edit
to return as perennial
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to make perennial