-adjective
– Living for several years or many years
-existing or cotinuing in the same way for a long time
– http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perennial
– ” For it is a perennial puzzle why no woman wrote a word of that extraordinary literlature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or sonnet.”
– Virginia Woolf uses the word perennial as it relates to women and how they were treated back then.