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evergreen
CIDE DICTIONARY
evergreen, a.
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. [1913 Webster]
evergreen, n.
- An evergreen plant. [1913 Webster]
- Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration. Keble.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
evergreen, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 always green or fresh.
2 (of a plant) retaining green leaves throughout the year.
--n. an evergreen plant (cf. DECIDUOUS).
--adj.
1 always green or fresh.
2 (of a plant) retaining green leaves throughout the year.
--n. an evergreen plant (cf. DECIDUOUS).
THESAURUS
evergreen
abiding, age-long, aged, amphibian, ancient, angiosperm, annual, antique, aquatic plant, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, biennial, bushlike, bushy, callow, chronic, citrous, conifer, coniferous, constant, continuing, cosmopolite, cutting, deciduous, deciduous plant, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, dewy, dicot, dicotyledon, diuturnal, durable, enduring, ephemeral, ever-blooming, ever-new, exotic, firsthand, fledgling, flowering plant, fresh, fruit tree, fungus, gametophyte, green, gymnosperm, half-hardy, hardwood, hardwood tree, hardy, hydrophyte, immature, immutable, indeciduous, intact, intransient, inveterate, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, macrobiotic, maiden, maidenly, monocot, monocotyl, neoteric, nestling, new, nondeciduous, of long duration, of long standing, original, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, piny, plant, pollard, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, pristine, raw, remaining, sapling, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, seed plant, seedling, sempervirent, shade tree, shrubby, shrublike, softwood, softwood tree, spermatophyte, sporophyte, stable, staying, steadfast, thallophyte, timber, timber tree, tough, tree, treelike, triennial, unbeaten, undeveloped, unfading, unfledged, unhandled, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, vascular plant, vegetable, vernal, virgin, virginal, vital, weed, youngROGET THESAURUS
evergreen
Continuity
N continuity, consecution, consecutiveness, succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain, catenation, concatenation, scale, gradation, course, ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent, procession, column, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array, pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race, ancestry, descent, family, house, line, line of ancestors, strain, rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team, suit, colonnade, continuous, continued, consecutive, progressive, gradual, serial, successive, immediate, unbroken, entire, linear, in a line, in a row, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence), perennial, evergreen, constant, continuously, seriatim, in a line, in succession, in turn, running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch, in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.Diuturnity
N diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity, slowness, perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age, durableness, durability, persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence, survival, survivance, longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay, durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, persistent, lifelong, livelong, longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial, sempervirent, sempervirid, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, perpetual, lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long-winded, slow, long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, for good, permanently.Perpetuity
N perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia, interminability, agelessness, everlastingness, perpetuation, continued existence, uninterrupted existence, perennity, permanence (durability), perpetual, eternal, everduring, everlasting, ever-living, ever- flowing, continual, sempiternal, coeternal, endless, unending, ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing, endless, unending, interminable, having no end, unfading, evergreen, amaranthine, neverending, never-dying, never-fading, deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable, perpetually, always, ever, evermore, aye, for ever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for ever and ever, in all ages, from age to age, without end, world without end, time without end, in secula seculorum, to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the 'last syllable of recorded time', till doomsday, constantly, esto perpetuum, labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum, but thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought, her immortal part with angels lives, ohne Rast ora e sempre.Newness
N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.For further exploring for "evergreen" in Webster Dictionary Online