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# evergreen

«evergreen» in Mova's school dictionary: **An evergreen tree or plant keeps green leaves all year round** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [Evergreen trees keep leaves all year and lose old ones little by little.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/9/)
- [Thin needles with a waxy coat help evergreen trees lose little water in winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «evergreen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evergreen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.