perennial
puh-REN-ee-uladjMeaning lasting or coming back year after year
Memory hook PER-ENN: THROUGH the YEARS. Every spring, the same red tulips pop up in Nana Lou’s garden, year after year after year: they are perennial.
Pizza is a perennial favorite in our school cafeteria.
In context Weeds are a perennial problem in the garden; pull them up in June, and they are back again the next spring.
Similar lasting, enduring, recurring
Opposite short-lived, fleeting, one-time
From Latin perennis, “lasting through the years”: per (through) + annus (year).