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Noun: winter hardiness
  1. The characteristic property of plants that grow during the winter, or at least remain healthy and dormant.
    "Either too much or too little water during the later part of the growing season can reduce the winter hardiness of nursery crops."

Type of: imperishability, imperishableness, imperishingness

Encyclopedia: Winter hardiness