evergreen
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: banking
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law
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medicine
natural-sciences
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pharmaceuticals
pharmacology
physical-sciences
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Etymology: From ever + green.
Compound parts: ever
green
Inflected forms:
form: evergreens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: evergreens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: evergreening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: evergreened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: evergreened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: nondeciduous
...these three little creeping vines put forth their hands with joy, and spread over rock and hillock and twisted tree-root and mouldering log, in cloaks and scarves and wreaths of tiny evergreen, glossy leaves.
gloss: Continually fresh or self-renewing.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
often
gloss: Continually fresh or self-renewing.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
often
examples: Chrome and Firefox are evergreen browsers: they update automatically and version numbers are only used for internal reference.
gloss: Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Another change in the news was emphasis on “evergreen” features involving attractive children or animals, parades or fireworks, as well as local developments.
gloss: A shrub or tree that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.
pos: noun
examples: The lawn before them was gay with evergreens, relieved by the first few flowers and fresh turf of the reviving Spring; […]
Husband and wife walked till they had reached the house they were in search of, which stood in a terrace facing the sea, and was fronted by a small garden of wind-proof and salt-proof evergreens, stone steps leading up to the porch.
gloss: A conifer tree.
pos: noun
tags: informal
specifically
examples: The spruce and fir trees crowded to the track on each side to welcome us, the arbor- vitae, with its changing leaves, prompted us to make haste, and the sight of the canoe-birch gave us spirits to do so. Sometimes an evergreen just fallen lay across the track with its rich burden of cones, looking, still, fuller of life than our trees in the most favorable positions.
Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans, / Way back up in the woods among the evergreens, / There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood / Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
gloss: A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.
pos: verb
gloss: To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.
pos: verb
Derived words: Chinese evergreen magnolia
everblack
evergreenery
evergreen industry
evergreenness
evergreen oak
evergreen wood fern
half-evergreen
nonevergreen
semi-evergreen
semievergreen
Chinese evergreen
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