perennation
— Noun
– English
~ the process of living through a number of years (as a perennial plant)
perennial
— Noun
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~ (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more
perennial pea
— Noun
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~ perennial climber of central and southern Europe having purple or pink or white flowers; naturalized in North America
perennial
— Adjective
– English
~ recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements"
perennial
— Adjective
– English
~ lasting three seasons or more; "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant"
perennial
— Adjective
– English
~ lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; "perennial happiness"
perennially
— Adverb
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~ in a perennial manner; repeatedly; "We want to know what is perennially new about the world"
Pereskia
— Noun
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~ genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers
Pereskia aculeata
— Noun
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~ West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits
perestroika
— Noun
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~ an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy
perfect
— Noun
– English
~ a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
perfect participle
— Noun
– English
~ a participle that expresses completed action
perfect game
— Noun
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~ a game in which a pitcher does not allow any opposing player to reach base
perfect gas
— Noun
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~ a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces
past perfect
— Noun
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~ a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
perfect
— Verb
– English
~ make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!"
perfect
— Adjective
– English
~ being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
perfect
— Adjective
– English
~ precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing"
perfect
— Adjective
– English
~ without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thorough nuisance"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
perfecta
— Noun
– English
~ a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order