Word Meanings - EVERGREEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.

Related words: (words related to EVERGREEN)

• THROUGHOUT
  In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• WINTER'S BARK
  The aromatic bark of tree of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.
• WINTERWEED
  A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior.
• WINTERY
  Wintry.
• UNTIL
  1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser. 2. To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening;
• REMAIN
  re- + manere to stay, remain. See Mansion, and cf. Remainder, 1. To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• RETAIN
  1. To belong; to pertain. A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness. Boyle. 2. To keep; to continue; to remain. Donne.
• REMAINDER
  Remaining; left; left over; refuse. Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. Shak.
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• WINTER-GROUND
  To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.
• WINTER-PROUD
  Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early. Holland.
• PINESAP
  A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa , formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.
• THROUGHLY
  Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.
• UNTILE
  To take the tiles from; to uncover by removing the tiles.
• WINTERKILL
  To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
• REMAINDER-MAN
  One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3. Blackstone.
• TWINTER
  A domestic animal two winters old.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• SLOPPINESS
  The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.
• WHERETHROUGH
  Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
• SAPPINESS
  The quality of being sappy; juiciness.
• MIDWINTER
  The middle of winter. Dryden.
• CREEPINESS
  An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.
• BEWINTER
  To make wintry.
• SOAPINESS
  Quality or state of being soapy.
• ROPINESS
  Quality of being ropy; viscosity.
• SLIPPINESS
  Slipperiness. "The slippiness of the way." Sir W. Scott.