evergreen meaning
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[ˈɛvəɡriːn] [ˈɛvɚɡrin] WEvergreen
- In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season.
- most species of conifers (e.g., hemlock, blue spruce, red cedar, and white/scots/jack pine), but not all (e.g., larch)
- live oak, holly, and "ancient" gymnosperms such as cycads
- most angiosperms from frost-free climates, such as eucalypts and rainforest trees
- clubmosses and relatives
- The Latin binomial term sempervirens (literally, "always green") refers to the evergreen nature of the plant, for instance:
- NounPLevergreensSUF-éen
- VerbSGevergreensPRevergreeningPT, PPevergreened
- Adjective
- Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.
- Continually fresh or self-renewing; often used metaphorically.
- (computing) Of a document, a piece of software, or a dataset, being continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and outdated in the meantime).
- (broadcasting) Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.
- Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- At one extreme, the two plots in Malaysia are in tall, evergreen forest; have no regular dry season; and include over 800 tree and treelet species each.
- a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent
- I use roses and grasses such as stipa, sweet william and tulips, with structural stuff such as the evergreen shrubs choisya and danae.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of evergreen in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- en evergreens
- en evergreened
- en evergreening
- en evergreen oak
- en evergreen oaks
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "evergreen" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.