(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.
(n.) An evergreen plant.
(n.) Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(2) C. minuticornis was found in these and in tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen rain forests of S. Thailand and N.W.
(3) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
(4) riversi was confined to evergreen forest and its adjacent area.
(5) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
(6) The three greatest concerns for Australia in the recent draft include provisions that would further entrench secondary patenting and evergreening, lock in extensions to patent terms, and extend monopoly rights over clinical trial data for certain medicines.” The lead author of the report and a public health lecturer at La Trobe University, Dr Deborah Gleeson, said the consequence was the extra cost of medicines could get passed on to the consumer through increasing the co-payment on government-subsidised drugs, or by restricting access to expensive drugs to those who could afford them.
(7) Her pragmatism is unusual, but then Liu is director of Evergreen, a state-owned old people's home in north Beijing.
(8) But the Evergreen State is not known for its clear days; rain and fog are persistent here year round.
(9) From the sociopathic capitalist machine by way of Mr Burns and the relentless religious optimism of Ned Flanders to the working-class, tense but sometimes faux-sexual interracial relationship between Lenny and Carl, for anyone that wants to look at America under a comedy microscope, you have to start with 742 Evergreen Terrace.
(10) Efforts to prevent sporotrichosis among persons handling evergreen seedlings should include the use of alternate types of packing material (e.g., cedar wood chips or shredded paper) and protective clothing such as gloves and long-sleeved shirts.
(11) It seems impossible – surely she was ageless, like one of those very old, tiny, trees in the Arctic, gnarled and tough as a nut, but nonetheless evergreen.
(12) The evergreen Churchill Arms on Kensington Church Street becomes one enormous conifer each December.
(13) Minnelli has been out of fashion for a while, despite having directed – alongside Meet Me In St Louis – some of the truly evergreen musicals of the middle 20th century, especially at MGM under Arthur Freed.
(14) Stephanie Coontz, a faculty member at the Evergreen State College in Washington state and a frequent contributor to publications including the New York Times, agrees, saying that writing for the public forces researchers to work in unfamiliar ways.
(15) Evergreen striker Paul Ifill, playing his 100th game for the Phoenix, provided an injection of pace and guile when he came on after 65 minutes but, although opportunities were created, the finishing wasn't there.
(16) The antimicrobial activities of seven Epicoccum purpurascens strains isolated either from evergreen oak leaves (Quercus ilex) collected over a period of one year, or from the atmosphere were compared in vitro.
(17) 66,000), central Finland, was carried out in 1990 as part of the EVERGREEN-project.
(18) But even if you can afford Evergreen's fees of up to 5,100 yuan (£510) each month, it has just 600 beds, and a waiting list of 1,300.
(19) Evergreening could delay generic competition for up to 20 years, the report found.
(20) While, for many, work might become redundant, its value and the virtues it can cultivate are evergreen.
Shrub
Definition:
(n.) A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
(n.) A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
(v. t.) To lop; to prune.
Example Sentences:
(1) Close to the smelters tree species accumulated more foliar fluoride than shrub species, which in turn accumulated more foliar fluoride than herb species.
(2) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(3) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
(4) This study investigated the effect of prolonged ingestion of Leucaena leucocephala, a leguminous shrub with a potential as a source of animal feed in Southern Taiwan, by heifers on serum thyroid hormone levels.
(5) The group, which entered through a fence around the Lincolnshire at 8am and included a Catholic priest and an Anglican priest, managed to set up banners and plant a "peace garden" consisting of a number of shrubs before they were arrested.
(6) It is concluded that these goats have a feeding habit similar to that of cattle rather than resting their forelimbs on the shrubs while nibbling the leaves as recorded in Asian goats.
(7) Glia shrubs in the cerebellar cortex appeared to be formed along the apical dendrite of Purkinje cells.
(8) The ACMD report described it as a herbal product made up of the leaves and shoots of the shrub Catha edulis, which releases a mild stimulant after being chewed for about an hour and three quarters.
(9) About half of the species eaten came from the dense herb and shrub layers.
(10) But over in the hospital, beyond the fences and shrubs, there is movement.
(11) According to the Garden Bridge trust, the new crossing would feature not only shrubs, trees, plants, benches and even "intimate walkways", but would also serve as a direct link between the South Bank and Covent Garden and Soho.
(12) Away from the city, green gives way to bush, then desert pockmarked with shrubs.
(13) The most favourable biotope for the circulation of Ixodes ticks, which are the principal vectors of the virus, is provided by the margins of these natural forests and their supplementary shrub communities.
(14) The following risk factors were assessed: black fly bites, presence of rodents at home, exposure to cereal dust, exposure to fumes or dust released by tree and shrub removal, and exposure to insecticides.
(15) I'm in St Ives in Cornwall, strolling around the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, a thickly growing, almost tropical space where tree, plant, shrub and sculpture live in perfect harmony.
(16) There is a widespread practice among people living in Eastern Africa and Southern Arabia of chewing the leaves of the Khat shrub so as to produce pharmacological effects that are practically indistinguishable from those produced by amphetamine (AMPH).
(17) Herbicides are a heterogeneous class of chemicals used in agriculture, forestry, and urban settings to kill weeds, shrubs, and broad-leaved trees.
(18) Shrubs and trees, especially of the Rosaceae (primarily species of Prunus), were particularly important as nectar sources and bloomed concurrently with the appearance of nulliparous females.
(19) Cathinone is an active ingredient in the leaves of the Khat shrub.
(20) Therefore, during the spring and fall, activities that take place in high-shrub areas or in the woods (e.g., landscaping, trail or brush clearing) involve a high risk of exposure to adult ticks infected with Lyme disease.