Definition of "persistent" adjective comparative more persistent , superlative most persistent
(botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off . quotations examples
Quotations The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule , usually transformed into a water -sac , is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe ; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes , but not the lobules , and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes .
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page 4
(mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non -transient . examples