perennial

perennial

CEFR: C1-C2 /peren-ni-al/ [p.er0.eh1.n.iy0.ah0.l]

A perennial plant lives for several years and has flowers each year. Perennial is also a noun. Here are example sentences:

Example Sentences:
Perennials have the capacity to live through many successive growing seasons.
This is a perennial plant with greenish-yellow flowers.

You can also use perennial to describe situations or states that keep occurring or which seem to exist all the time; used especially to describe problems or difficulties. For example:

Example Sentences:
There is a perennial urban problem of drugs and homelessness.
There's a perennial shortage of teachers with science qualifications.