I scanned a color yesterday, it said, perennial color As a native English speaker, I have no idea what "perennial" means as a color. I think maybe the program

I scanned a color yesterday, it said, perennial color As a native English speaker, I have no idea what "perennial" means as a color. I think maybe the program you are using to scan the color is meant for matching paint colors? Because of the large number of different shades of paint available, and the smaller number of color names that have meaning in English, paint colors have to be given made-up names that don't mean anything outside the context of the naming scheme used by a particular paint company. When a company sells eighty different kinds of green, they have to be creative to think up enough names. I'm sure they picked "perennial" because most plants are green and perennial is a word related to plants. There's no other relationship between "perennial" and a color.