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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.
- Pixie - n. - A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
- Pyracanth - n. - The evergreen thorn (Crataegus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe.
- Thuja - n. - A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.
- Phillyrea - n. - A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.
- Shallon - n. - An evergreen shrub (Gaultheria Shallon) of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.
- Longan - n. - A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan).
- 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.
- Puttyroot - n. - An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.
- Evergreen - n. - Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
- 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.
- Kermes - n. - A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Juniper - n. - Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus Juniperus and order Coniferae.
- Alaternus - n. - An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.
- Gaultheria - n. - A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon).
- Cacao - n. - A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.
- Madroa - n. - A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of California, having a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madroa apples.
- Aloe - n. - A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.
- Leucadendron - n. - A genus of evergreen shrubs from the Cape of Good Hope, having handsome foliage. Leucadendron argenteum is the silverboom of the colonists.
- 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.
- 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.
- Johnson grass - - A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.