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evergreen
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)
- 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.
- (often figuratively) Continually fresh or self-renewing.
- (contracts) A clause which causes an automatic renewal of a contract unless action is taken.
- (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a piece of software, or a dataset, being continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and outdated in the meantime)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.
- 2014, Peter Gasston, Book of CSS3, 2nd Edition: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design, No Starch Press ?ISBN, page 257
- (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)
- A tree or shrub that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.
- (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
- 1858: Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods [2]
- (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)
- (patent law, pharmaceuticals) To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.
- (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
- (anglicism) evergreen (evergreen song, song that is ever popular)
Declension
Synonyms
- ikivihreä
Italian
Etymology
From English evergreen.
Adjective
evergreen m or f (invariable)
- evergreen (always in style)
Noun
evergreen m (invariable)
- a song or singer that is always in style
- (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
- classic song, evergreen song, song that is ever popular
Declension
Synonyms
- klassiker
Further reading
- evergreen in Svensk ordbok.
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valonia
English
Alternative forms
- valonia oak, velani, velani oak, valonea, valonea oak, vallonea, vallonea oak
Etymology
From the Venetian name Valona of the now Albanian city Vlorë around which it grows unlike in Italy; but an occasional acquaintance at first and one of the principal sources of tannin in the English-speaking world only in the late 19th century, largely imported from the Ottoman Empire, Smyrna being the main trading centre for it, whence to Trieste it passed the first time in 1842 to reach the Austro-Hungarian leather industry and becoming popular in the German Reich only by the 1880s.
Noun
valonia (plural valonias)
- The European evergreen oak, Quercus macrolepis, now Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis, or Quercus aegilops.
- The dried acorn cups of this tree, which are used to make a black dye, used in tanning.
See also
- dyer's oak, Aleppo oak (“Quercus infectoria”)
- black oak (“Quercus velutina”)
Anagrams
- Lavonia, novalia
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