Evergreen Definition

ĕvər-grēn
evergreens
adjective
Having leaves that are green all year.
Webster's New World
That remains fresh, vital, interesting, applicable, etc.; timeless.
Webster's New World
Automatically renewed or repeatedly made valid.
A contractual evergreen clause.
American Heritage

Continually fresh or self-renewing; often used metaphorically.

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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a document or dataset, continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and being slightly outdated in-between those publication dates)
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • ever-blooming
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noun
evergreens
An evergreen plant or tree, including most conifers and many broad-leaved plants, as some rhododendrons, hollies, etc.
Webster's New World
The branches and twigs of evergreens, used for decoration.
Webster's New World
An evergreen, or timeless, person or thing.
Webster's New World
Something that remains perennially fresh, interesting, or well liked.
American Heritage
(colloquial) A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.
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Synonyms:
verb

(patents, pharmaceuticals) To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.

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(banking) To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.

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Other Word Forms of Evergreen

Noun

Singular:
evergreen
Plural:
evergreens

Origin of Evergreen

Evergreen Sentence Examples

  • They are magnificent evergreen trees, with apparently whorled branches, and stiff, flattened, pointed leaves, found in Brazil and Chile, Polynesia and Australia.

  • Grown warm through the winter the plant would remain evergreen.

  • The alternate leaves are more or less deeply sinuated or cut in many species, but in some of the deciduous and many of the evergreen kinds are nearly or quite entire on the margin.

  • At a few points, such as Nikita near Livadia and Alupka, where plants have been acclimatized by human agency, the Californian Wellingtonia, the Lebanon cedar, many evergreen trees, the laurel, the cypress, and even the Anatolian palm (Chamaerops excelsa) flourish.

  • The common English bramble is practically evergreen, the leaves lasting through winter and until the new leaves are developed next spring.

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