EVERGREEN

Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves in all four seasons, always green. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season. There are many different kinds of evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs. Evergreens include:

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Ever Green

Ever Green is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and a book by Benn Levy, based on an idea by Rodgers and Hart. This was the last of three musicals written by Rodgers and Hart in London.

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evergreen

Noun

  1. A tree or shrub that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.
  2. More specifically, a conifer tree.
  3. A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.

Verb

  1. To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.
  2. To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.

Adjective

  1. Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.
  2. Continually fresh or self-renewing; often used metaphorically.
  3. Of a document or dataset, continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and being slightly outdated in-between those publication dates)
  4. Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.


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