EVERGREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evergreen mean? 

• EVERGREEN (noun)
  The noun EVERGREEN has 1 sense:

1. a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year

  Familiarity information: EVERGREEN used as a noun is very rare.

• EVERGREEN (adjective)
  The adjective EVERGREEN has 1 sense:

1. (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year

  Familiarity information: EVERGREEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVERGREEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

evergreen; evergreen plant

Hypernyms ("evergreen" is a kind of...):

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

• EVERGREEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year

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 

The evergreen arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I am so glad to see the evergreens thrive!” said Fanny, in reply.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A type of evergreen tree that is a member of the myrtle family.

(Eucalyptus, NCI Dictionary)

An herbal remedy derived from the seeds of the evergreen tree Strychnos nux-vomica, a native to southeast Asia and northern Australia.

(Nux Vomica Seed, NCI Thesaurus)

“Here's a Romsey man for you!” cried a young bowman with a sprig of evergreen set in his helmet.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A semisynthetic formulation of the cytotoxic plant alkaloid homoharringtonine isolated from the evergreen tree Cephalotaxus with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Omacetaxine mepesuccinate, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an evergreen shrub or small tree that is usually trimmed to below two metres (six feet) when cultivated for its leaves.

(Camellia sinensis, NCI Thesaurus)

The house was a fair-sized one, standing back from the road, with a curving drive which was banked with high evergreen shrubs.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A type of evergreen tree with hard fragrant wood that is a member of the cypress family.

(Cedarwood, NCI Dictionary)

You’re right there, Jack ’Arrison. ’E was one of the three who came up to fight when the best men of Birmingham challenged the best men of London. ’E’s an evergreen, is Tom.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)