evergreen
part of speech
adjective (evergreen); noun (an evergreen, evergreens)
meaning for a pupil
1) An evergreen tree or plant keeps green leaves all year round. tree →
2) (noun) An evergreen is a tree or bush like a pine, holly or fir. tree →
3) (informal) Evergreen describes something that stays popular for a long time: an evergreen song. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons trees are evergreen or deciduous (they lose their leaves in autumn). Pines, firs and spruces have needles and are evergreen; most eucalyptus trees in Australia are evergreen too. In everyday life Christmas trees are evergreens.
examples
- Pine trees are evergreen. tree →
- Holly is an evergreen bush with prickly leaves. tree →
- Deciduous trees lose their leaves, but evergreens keep theirs. tree →
- The forest stayed green even in winter because of the evergreens. tree →
- That old song is an evergreen. tree →
- Eucalyptus trees are evergreen. tree →
- He sorrowfully crowned his head with its leaves, and declared, that in memory of his love, it should henceforth remain evergreen, and be held sacred to him. tree →
note
Written as one word. Opposite: deciduous. Myth: evergreens never lose leaves — they do, a few at a time, not all at once.
In the corpora
- Evergreen trees keep leaves all year and lose old ones little by little.
- Thin needles with a waxy coat help evergreen trees lose little water in winter.
Trees and pragmatics
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