Evergreen

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  • adjective. Having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year.
  • adjective. Perennially fresh or interesting; enduring.
  • adjective. Automatically renewed or repeatedly made valid.
  • noun. A tree, shrub, or plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year.
  • noun. Twigs or branches of evergreen plants used as decoration.
  • noun. Something that remains perennially fresh, interesting, or well liked.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Always green; verdant throughout the year; sempervirid: as, the pine is an evergreen tree.
  • noun. A plant that retains its verdure through all the seasons, as the pine and other coniferous trees, the holly, laurel, holm-oak, ivy, rhododendron, and many others.
  • noun. A woolen material similar to cassimere: a term in use about 1850.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An evergreen plant.
  • noun. Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
  • adjective. Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.
  • adjective. Continually fresh or self-renewing; often used metaphorically.
  • adjective. Of a document or dataset, continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and being slightly outdated in-between those publication dates)
  • adjective. Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.
  • noun. A tree or shrub that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.
  • noun. More specifically, a conifer tree.
  • noun. A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.
  • verb. To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.
  • verb. To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year
  • noun. a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year
  • Word Usage
    "Also, not to rag on the religious anymore than I already have, the evergreen is a symbol of the pagan festivities so charitably replaced by the birth of Jesus. stuf64"
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    deciduous  
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    cypress  dogwood  elm  fir  foliage  
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