Evergreen
['evəgriːn] or ['ɛvɚɡrin]
Definition
(noun.) a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year.
(adj.) (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year .
Editor: William--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) An evergreen plant.
(n.) Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
This dream denotes boundless resources of wealth, happiness and learning. It is a free presentiment of prosperity to all classes.
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Examples
- Both species of the sequoias are evergreen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The tree is distinguished by the great thickness and sponginess of its bark, and by the leaves being evergreen, oblong, somewhat oval, downy underneath, and waved. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The evergreen! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- At the upper end of the room, seated in a shady bower of holly and evergreens were the two best fiddlers, and the only harp, in all Muggleton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A mass of shrubs, full-leaved evergreens, laurel and dense yewintervened between me and what I followed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As they approached it, a figure, conspicuous on a dark background of evergreens, was seated on a bench, sketching the old tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He must think of low-growing evergreens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I am so glad to see the evergreens thrive! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I should not like to try the experiment; for, in truth, mamma, you are the most unfading of evergreens and the freshest of matrons. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The rain fell heavily on the roof, and pattered on the ground, and dripped among the evergreens and the leafless branches of the trees. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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