perennials

Noun

perennial (plural perennials)

1. A plant that is active throughout the year, or has a life cycle of more than two growing seasons.
   • One would have supposed from the appearance of the country at the end of the first season after the eruption that practically all plants except the trees and bushes had been destroyed, and that revegetation must be due to new seedlings started on the ash. Such, however, is not the case. Excavation...1917 January, Robert F[iske] Griggs, “The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes”, in National Geographic, volume XXXI, number 1, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society […], →ISSN, →OCLC
2. (broadly) A thing that lasts forever.
3. (broadly) A person or thing (such as a problem) that appears or returns regularly.
   • Some of the stars on our list are perennials who fill huge venues year after year after year, but there's also a returning superstar on our list of the hottest summer tours of 2019.2019 June 21, Sterling Whitaker, “Hottest Country Tours to See in Summer 2019”, in Taste of Country, archived from the original on 31 May 2021

See all 8 meanings of perennial