Perenniation

Quick meaning: Perenniation is a noun meaning (botany) The process or property of living for more than one year.

Meaning

(botany) The process or property of living for more than one year.

Example Sentences

Perenniation of phytoplankton in rivers arises from surviving periphytic and benthic populations, often of backwater areas (Reynolds and Descy, 1996).

It is always perennial, has a woody lignotuber that aids perenniation and regrowth after frost, fire or flood, it can produce large yields of very nutritious seed, and it thrives on clay soils.

Rees et al. (1999) found that in O. illyricum bolting is dependent on rosettes reaching a critical size, so that stresses such as rosette herbivory may reduce plant size and thus promote perenniation of rosettes.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include perennation, perennial, plurennial, annual, remontant, prolification.

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