(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.
Yucca
Definition:
(n.) See Flicker, n., 2.
(n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) An aqueous alcoholic extract of fresh flowers of Yucca glauca Nutt.
(2) Jaczko's decision to halt work on Yucca Mountain put him at odds with Republicans in Congress and the nuclear industry who, in the pre-Fukushima era, were hoping to build a series of new reactors, after a 30-year hiatus.
(3) A hitherto undescribed ballistosporous yeast was isolated from a dead leaf of Yucca sp.
(4) Walking through the yucca strands and mesquite branches, in the rust-and-gold shadow of the vortex site known as Cathedral Rock; listening to the sound of another traveller’s panpipes on the top of Airport Mesa; sneaking away from a tour to close my eyes and feel the scorching sun on my skin, sitting alone with a book and (mercifully strong) coffee at the Oak Creek Brewery and Grill hearing the creek murmur in the distance – all these provoke a sensation as close to mindfulness as any I’d experienced.
(5) Today, the equipment at the yucca plant is silent and rusting.
(6) At the end of a drive to Yucca, Arizona, 200 miles south-east of Vegas, we swung through the ranch gate and climbed out to a laconic “Howdy” from a cowpoke who introduced himself as Tex, the head wrangler.
(7) He is as Texan as the yucca plants growing outside his house.
(8) • Point Reyes links campsites , whale watching , hiking Joshua Tree national park Photograph: Alamy The park was named after the otherworldly trees that dot the landscape – actually an unusually tall species of yucca – but the real stars here are the rock formations: jumbled piles of outsize boulders that glitter with crystals in the southern Californian sun.
(9) The Obama administration has blocked a 22-year project to dump waste from reactors in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
(10) Left unresolved was the government's claim that Bundy owes more than $1.1m in fees and penalties for letting some 900 cows trespass for 20 years on arid rangeland of scrub brush, mesquite, cheat grass and yucca near the rustic town of Bunkerville, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
(11) The tensions with fellow regulators began almost immediately when Jaczko, following a White House lead, began shutting down a project to bury nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
(12) Yucca saponin fed in a concentration of 63 ppm to turkey poults at 6 to 14 weeks of age did not significantly improve weight gains, feed conversion, or digestive coefficients.
(13) Public opposition is high — as successive U.S. governments have discovered whenever the burial ground at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is discussed — and the cost of construction will be huge.
(14) They were encouraged to plant yucca, which would be processed in a new drying plant.
(15) • Rua Gago Coutinho 51, +55 21 2556 0638 Bar do Adão, city-wide Bar do Adão offers huge portions of Carioca (Rio) favourites, like the escondidinho (£7), a yucca-root lined dish filled with a meat (beef, chicken, shrimp, or cod) and topped with a crispy layer of parmesan.
(16) "The administration is also stuck on a solution for nuclear waste, after shutting down plans to bury the waste in the Yucca Mountain range in Nevada.
(17) But President Obama drastically cut the partnership's funding, while also halting work on the planned Yucca Mountain geological repository.
(18) The yucca flour would then be bought up by a new animal feed plant.
(19) The structures of the new steroidal saponins (tentatively named YS-XI, -XII and -XIII) have been isolated from the caudex of Yucca gloriosa and characterized as 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)-beta-D-galactopyranosyl 5 beta- (25R)-spirostan-3 beta, 12 beta-diol, 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)- [beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----3)]-beta-D-glucopyranosyl 5 beta- (25R)-spirostan-3 beta, 12 beta-diol and 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)- beta-D-galactopyranosyl 5 beta-(25R)-spirostan-2 beta,3 beta,12 beta-triol, respectively.
(20) Eight new steroidal glycosides, tentatively named YS-VI, -VII, -VIII, -IX, -X, -XI, -XII and -XIII were isolated from the caudex of Yucca gloriosa along with P-1, YG-2 and YG-3 previously obtained from flowers.