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evergreen

In botany, a plant such as pine, spruce, or holly, that bears its leaves all year round. Most conifers are evergreen. Plants that shed their leaves in autumn or during a dry season are described as deciduous.

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Town and administrative headquarters of Conecuh County, southwest Alabama; population (1990) 3,900. It is located approximately halfway between Birmingham to the northeast and Mobile to the southwest. It is known for its agricultural experiment station, which develops and ships plants, especially holly and mistletoe.



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The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder of winter.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Then I came to a long thicket of these oaklike trees-- live, or evergreen, oaks, I heard afterwards they should be called--which grew low along the sand like brambles, the boughs curiously twisted, the foliage compact, like thatch.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Hedges of evergreen or of yellow roses bordered the broad highway and the farms showed the care of their industrious inhabitants.
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