Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make perennial; make perpetual and never-failing.
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- verb botany, intransitive To return year after year as a
perennial . - verb botany, transitive To make
perennial .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Longer term, the government should back ambitious research now under way (at the Land Institute in Kansas and a handful of other places) to "perennialize" commodity agriculture: to breed varieties of wheat, rice and other staple grains that can be grown like prairie grasses - without having to till the soil every year.
t r u t h o u t 2008
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"perennialize" commodity agriculture: to breed varieties of wheat, rice and other staple grains that can be grown like prairie grasses - without having to till the soil every year.
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And who knows, maybe it will perennialize for you too, if you pile mulch around the crown or something.
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When allowed to perennialize, pigeonpea can drop 1.6 dry t/ha/yr of litter in the first year (Sheldrake and Nuayunan 1979).
Chapter 10 1996
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Tubers, such as potatoes and yams, are nutrient storage organs that allow plants to perennialize.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Shaun Smith 2011
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Tubers, such as potatoes and yams, are nutrient storage organs that allow plants to perennialize.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Shaun Smith 2011
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I grow a lot of species tulips that do perennialize, but I have never seen species tulips as big and vibrant as these (above).
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I grow a lot of species tulips that do perennialize, but I have never seen species tulips as big and vibrant as these (above).
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