different between evergreen vs abelmosk

English

Etymology

From ever +? green.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??v???i?n/
• (US) enPR: ?v??rgr?n, IPA^(key): /??v???in/

Adjective

evergreen (not comparable)

1. Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.

   Synonym: sempervirent

   Antonym: deciduous

   • 1902: Henry Van Dyke, The Blue Flower [1]

     ...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.

2. (often figuratively) Continually fresh or self-renewing.
   1. (contracts) A clause which causes an automatic renewal of a contract unless action is taken.
   2. (computing) Of a document, a piece of software, or a dataset, being continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and outdated in the meantime)
      • 2014, Peter Gasston, Book of CSS3, 2nd Edition: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design, No Starch Press ?ISBN, page 257

        Chrome and Firefox are evergreen browsers: they update automatically and version numbers are only used for internal reference.

3. (broadcasting) Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.

   Synonym: timeless

   • 2001, Christopher H Sterling, John M Kittross, Stay Tuned (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2001, p. 654)

     Another change in the news was emphasis on “evergreen” features involving attractive children or animals, parades or fireworks, as well as local developments.

Derived terms

• evergreenness
• evergreen oak
• half-evergreen
• semi-evergreen, semievergreen

Translations

Noun

evergreen (plural evergreens)

1. A tree or shrub that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.
2. (informal, specifically) A conifer tree.
   • 1858: Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods [2]

     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.

   • 1958: Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode

     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

3. (colloquial) A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.

Derived terms

• Chinese evergreen

Descendants

• ? Danish: evergreen
• ? Finnish: evergreen
• ? Italian: evergreen
• ? Swedish: evergreen

Translations

Verb

evergreen (third-person singular simple present evergreens, present participle evergreening, simple past and past participle evergreened)

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

Further reading

• evergreen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• evergreening on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

From English evergreen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?ør?ri?n/, [?e??ø?r?ri?n]

Noun

evergreen

1. (anglicism) evergreen (evergreen song, song that is ever popular)

Declension

Synonyms

• ikivihreä

Italian

Etymology

From English evergreen.

Adjective

evergreen m or f (invariable)

1. evergreen (always in style)

Noun

evergreen m (invariable)

1. a song or singer that is always in style
2. (finance) revolving credit

Further reading

• evergreen in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Swedish

Etymology

From English evergreen.

Noun

evergreen c

1. classic song, evergreen song, song that is ever popular

Declension

Synonyms

• klassiker

Further reading

• evergreen in Svensk ordbok.

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete): abelmusk, abelmosch

Etymology

From New Latin abelmoschus, from Italian abelmosch, from Arabic ????? ???????? (?ab? l-misk, “father of musk”) or ???? ???????? (?abb al-misk, “grain of musk”), from ????? (?abb, “grain”) + ?????? (misk), from Persian ???? (mošk).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?e?b?lm?sk/, /?e?blm?sk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?e?b?l?m?sk/, /?e?blm?sk/

Noun

abelmosk (countable and uncountable, plural abelmosks)

1. The edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the Abelmoschus moschatus.
   • 1719, translating Joseph Pitton de Tournefort as The Compleat Herbal, Vol. I, p. 70:

     Egyptian Ketmia, with a perfumed or Musk-Seed..., called Abelmosch of Morison.

   • 1892, Carl Deite translating William Theodore Brannt as A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery, p. 230:

     Abelmosk grains are the seeds of a plant... indigenous to Central Africa, Arabia, and India.

2. The tropical evergreen shrub Abelmoschus moschatus itself.
   • 1846, W. M. Buchanan, A Technological Dictionary, p. 4:

     Abelmosk, Abelmosch, or Abelmusk, the Syrian mallow, or musk okro, a species of hibiscus (H. abelmoschus).

   • 1992, Richard A. Spears in Language & Civilization, Vol. I, p. 43:

     The same description fits abelmosk, the Hibiscus abelmoshus, better known to the world as the East Indian dwarf okra plant.

3. (uncommon, usually in the plural) Other members of the genus Abelmoschus, such as okra.

Usage notes

Formerly considered a species of hibiscus, but since distinguished as part of a separate genus.

Synonyms

• (A. moschatus): annual hibiscus, tropical jewel hibiscus (dated); ambrette, muskdana, musk mallow, musk okra, ornamental okra, rose mallow, Yorka okra, musk seed

Translations

References

• Abelmoschus moschatus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Abelmoschus moschatus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “abelmosk, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2011

Anagrams

• smokable