1.
[syn: evergreen, evergreen plant]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Evergreen \Ev"er*green\, n.
1. (Bot.) An evergreen plant.
[1913 Webster]
2. pl. Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for
decoration. "The funeral evengreens entwine." --Keble.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Evergreen \Ev"er*green\a. (Bot.)
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
evergreen
adj 1: (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the
year [ant: deciduous]
n 1: a plant having foliage that persists and remains green
throughout the year [syn: evergreen, evergreen plant]
[ant: deciduous plant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, young
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Evergreen, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 6215
Housing Units (2000): 2532
Land area (2000): 8.012444 sq. miles (20.752134 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.042377 sq. miles (0.109755 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.054821 sq. miles (20.861889 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25075
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.228746 N, 114.273928 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59901
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Evergreen, MT
Evergreen
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Evergreen, CO -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Colorado
Population (2000): 9216
Housing Units (2000): 3840
Land area (2000): 11.582230 sq. miles (29.997837 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.061964 sq. miles (0.160487 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.644194 sq. miles (30.158324 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25390
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 39.638905 N, 105.336318 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 80439
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Evergreen, CO
Evergreen
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Evergreen, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 3630
Housing Units (2000): 1860
Land area (2000): 15.193755 sq. miles (39.351642 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.060744 sq. miles (0.157326 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 15.254499 sq. miles (39.508968 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24808
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 31.435025 N, 86.954905 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36401
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Evergreen, AL
Evergreen
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Evergreen, LA -- U.S. town in Louisiana
Population (2000): 314
Housing Units (2000): 152
Land area (2000): 1.018993 sq. miles (2.639179 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.018993 sq. miles (2.639179 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24775
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 30.952856 N, 92.109068 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Evergreen, LA
Evergreen
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Evergreen, WI -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 3611
Housing Units (2000): 1267
Land area (2000): 3.814957 sq. miles (9.880694 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.814957 sq. miles (9.880694 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24587
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.847312 N, 89.627491 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54840
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Evergreen, WI
Evergreen