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# evergreen

adjective (evergreen); noun (an evergreen, evergreens)

«evergreen» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An evergreen tree or plant keeps green leaves all year round. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#m1)
2. (noun) An evergreen is a tree or bush like a pine, holly or fir. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#m2)
3. (informal) Evergreen describes something that stays popular for a long time: an evergreen song. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#x1)
- Holly is an evergreen bush with prickly leaves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#x2)
- Deciduous trees lose their leaves, but evergreens keep theirs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#x3)
- The forest stayed green even in winter because of the evergreens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#x4)
- That old song is an evergreen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#x5)
- Eucalyptus trees are evergreen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#x6)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#x7)

### Note

Written as one word. Opposite: deciduous. Myth: evergreens never lose leaves — they do, a few at a time, not all at once.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «evergreen» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«evergreen» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/evergreen.html) on Mova free.