perennial
(noun)
a plant that is active throughout the year or survives for more than two growing seasons
Examples of perennial in the following topics:
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Plant Life Spans
- Perennials, such as the magnolia, complete their life cycle in two years or more.
- Other polycarpic species, such as perennials, flower several times during their life span, but not each year.
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Ethnicity
- Examples of such approaches include primordialism, perennialism, constructivism, modernism, and instrumentalism.
- Perennialism holds that ethnicity is ever changing, and that while the concept of ethnicity has existed at all times, ethnic groups are generally short lived before the ethnic boundaries realign in new patterns.
- Criticize the concept of ethnicity from the perspective of Max Weber's and Ronald Cohen's theories of social constructionism, referencing the approaches of primordialism, perennialism, and constructivism
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Chicago/Turabian (Author–Date): How to Reference Different Types of Sources
- New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.
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Chicago/Turabian (NB): How to Reference Different Types of Sources
- New York: Harper Perennial, 2005.
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Colonial Government
- This was especially true in the perennial battles between appointed governors and the elected assembly.
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Organismal Ecology and Population Ecology
- The wild lupine (Lupinus perennis) is the host plant for the Karner blue butterfly.
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The Tariff
- In April 1913, President Wilson summoned a special joint session of Congress in order to confront the perennial tariff question.
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Genetic Control of Flowers
- Many perennial and most biennial plants require vernalization to flower.
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Plant Virus Life Cycles
- When control of plant virus infections is considered economical, (for perennial fruits for example), efforts are concentrated on killing the vectors and removing alternate hosts such as weeds.
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Subtropical Deserts and Chaparral
- Very dry deserts lack perennial vegetation that lives from one year to the next.