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Perennating
Surviving the most difficult season (e.g. the dry season), lasting the whole year through or from one season to the next.
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Perennate
Lasting throughout the year or from one season to the next; Self-renewing by lateral shoots from the base.
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Percurrent
Running through the entire length.
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Per-
Intensifying prefix in Latin compounds; for example, in persimilis, meaning ‘very alike’.
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Peponiform
Shaped like a pepo, resembling a pepo.
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Pepo
(Fruit type) inferior fruit of the Cucurbitaceae, berry-like with a hard rind (exocarp) and parietal placentation. A berry with a leathery rind, derived from an inferior ovary; use is often restricted to the squash family. Berry-like fruit with a thick exocarp and parietal placentation, as in Cucurbitaceae.
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Pentandrous
With five stamens.
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Pentamerous
(Of a flower) with its constituent parts in multiples of five. The flowers parts in fives.
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Pentagonal
5-angled.
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Pentadelphous
With the stamens in five bundles [old-fashioned tem].
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