Definition of Evergreen plant

1. Noun. A plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year.

Exact synonyms: Evergreen
Generic synonyms: Tracheophyte, Vascular Plant
Antonyms: Deciduous Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Evergreen Plant

everduring
everfalling
everflowing
everglade
evergoing
evergreen
evergreen beech
evergreen bittersweet
evergreen blueberry
evergreen cherry
evergreen huckleberry
evergreen magnolia
evergreen millet
evergreen oak
evergreen plant (current term)
evergreen thorn
evergreen winterberry
evergreen wood fern
evergreened
evergreening
evergreens
evergrowing
everie
everlast
everlastable
everlasting
everlasting(a)
everlasting flower
everlasting flowers

Literary usage of Evergreen plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Garden Month by Month: Describing the Appearance, Color, Dates of Bloom by Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, Robert Cameron (1907)
"... Spreading evergreen plant with 6-9 in. May. ... Spreading evergreen plant with clus- 6-9 in. May. ..."

2. The Annals of Horticulture (1849)
"... evergreen plant, growing a foot high, •with ascendent hoary branches, lanceolate oblong leaves, with revolute margins, usually hoary beneath, ..."

3. The Handy Pocket Dictionary of the English Language by Thomas Joseph Carey (1892)
"Head'ineas, n. the quality of heing heady. Head'mg, ít. the title of a palmer, etc.; a gallery iu a mine. Heath, n. an evergreen plant; a place overgrown ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"One of several species of Lycopodium, or club-moss, especially L. clavatum, the common club-moss, a long creeping evergreen plant found in healthy pastures ..."

5. The Practical Flower Garden by Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1911)
"Is the most rapid-growing vine in cultivation, often growing 30 feet in a year. EUONYMUS RADICANS. Evergreen. Plant in the ..."

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