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- Evergreen - a. - 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.
- Evergreen - n. - An evergreen plant.
- Evergreen - n. - Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
- Alaternus - n. - An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.
- Evergreen - n. - An evergreen plant.
- Yew - n. - An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
- Coffee - n. - The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.
- Boldu - n. - A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine, and the drupes are eaten.
- Longan - n. - A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan).
- Furze - n. - A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
- Carob - n. - An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.
- Proteaceous - a. - Of or pertaining to the Proteaceae, an order of apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the Cape of Good Hope or of Australia.
- Laurel - n. - An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
- Shallon - n. - An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.
- Leucadendron - n. - A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.
- Hemlock - n. - An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
- Kermes - n. - A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.
- Phillyrea - n. - A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.
- Heath - n. - A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
- Oleander - n. - A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.
- Hulver - n. - Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.
- Ilex - n. - A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly.
- Abelmosk - n. - An evergreen shrub (Hibiscus -- formerly Abelmoschus -- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.
- Laurestine - n. - The Viburnum Tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter mouths.
- Holm - n. - A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.
- Manzanita - n. - A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.
- Pyracanth - n. - The evergreen thorn (Crataegus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe.
- Mistletoe - n. - A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit.