perennialize

English

Etymology

From perennial +‎ -ize.

Verb

perennialize (third-person singular simple present perennializes, present participle perennializing, simple past and past participle perennialized)

1. (botany, intransitive) To return year after year as a perennial.
   • 2000, Tom Peace, Sunbelt Gardening: Success in Hot-Weather Climates, page 64:

     I recommend spending your bulb budget on bulbs that will perennialize in the garden, and if you need big tulips, purchase a bunch from the local florist.

2. (botany, transitive) To make perennial.
   • 2007 June 5, Jim Robbins, “A Perennial Search for Perfect Wheat”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The quest here is one of several around the world, to perennialize everything from sorghum to chickpeas to sunflowers.

Translations

to return as perennial

• Finnish: perennoida

to make perennial