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EVERGREEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year
Synonyms:
evergreen; evergreen plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("evergreen" is a kind of...):
tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year
Classified under:
Similar:
cone-bearing; coniferous (of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves)
half-evergreen; semi-evergreen (of a plant that is incompletely evergreen)
Domain category:
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Antonym:
deciduous ((of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season)
Context examples:
If a breath of air stirred, it made no sound here; for there was not a holly, not an evergreen to rustle, and the stripped hawthorn and hazel bushes were as still as the white, worn stones which causewayed the middle of the path.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then I came to a long thicket of these oaklike trees—live, or evergreen, oaks, I heard afterwards they should be called—which grew low along the sand like brambles, the boughs curiously twisted, the foliage compact, like thatch.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Cocculus/nux vomica/tabacum/petroleum extract contains equal homeopathic units of the following extracts: extract of Cocculus indicus (fish berry), the fruit of the southeast Asian/Indian climbing plant Anamirta cocculus; extract of the seeds of Strychnos nux vomica (poison nut), an evergreen tree native to southeast Asia; extract of Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco); and petroleum.
(Cocculus/Nux vomica/Tabacum/Petroleum Extract, NCI Thesaurus)
"On the contrary, I like it very much, dear," looking from the dusty rosary to the well-worn little book, and the lovely picture with its garland of evergreen.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
My uncle's gardener always says the soil here is better than his own, and so it appears from the growth of the laurels and evergreens in general.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The evergreen!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
