A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

eternal, everlasting, endless, perpetual: aeternalis,-e (adj.B), aeternus,-a,-um (adj.A), eternal, everlasting, endless, perpetual, without beginning or end, eternal; perpetuus,-a,-um (adj.A), continuous, uninterrupted; sempiternus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v., everlasting, ever-enduring, perpetual, continual, imperishable, eternal; see aeternus,-a,-um (adj.A); see continual;

- species ad 6, in uliginosis montium altiorum Andium Americae australis vigentes, usque ad limites nivium aeternarum extensae (B&H), species to 6, in the wet places of the higher mountains of the Andes of South America flourishing, extended up to the limits of perpetual snows.

- in Alpium Pyrenaeornmque scopulis nivi aeternae [dat.sg.]contiguis (DeCandolle), on the crags of the Alps and Pyrenes near to eternal snow.

- [Macropodium nivale] in summis montibus Altaicis prope nives perpetuas (DeCandolle), on the highest Altae mounts near eternal snow.