perennation
əˌneɪt, pəˈrɛn verb (used without object), per·en·nat·ed, per·en·nat·ing. Botany.
to survive from season to season for an indefinite number of years.
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| —vb | |
| (intr) (of plants) to live from one growing season to another, usually with a period of reduced activity between seasons | |
| [C17: from Latin perennātus, from perennāre, from | |
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Perennation
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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