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perennialize

perennialize verb: to return year after year as a perennial.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To 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. (transitive) To 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

Forms of perennialize

third-person singular presentperennializes
present participleperennializing
past participleperennialized
pastperennialized

Origin of perennialize

From perennial + -ize.

Words formed from perennialize

Questions about perennialize

What does perennialize mean?
Perennialize means to return year after year as a perennial.
What part of speech is perennialize?
Perennialize is a verb.
What is the past tense of perennialize?
The past tense of perennialize is perennialized.

Words near perennialize in the dictionary

  1. perennialist
  2. perennialistic
  3. perennialists
  4. perenniality
  5. perennialization
  6. perennialize
  7. perennialized
  8. perennializes
  9. perennializing
  10. perennially
  11. perennialness

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