sempervirent

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English

Etymology

From Latin semper (“always”) + virēns, present participle of vireō (“be green”).

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sɛmpəˈvaɪɹənt/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sɛmpɚˈvaɪɹənt/

Adjective

sempervirent (not comparable)

  1. Evergreen.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 408:
      A boxwood-lined path, presided over by a nostalgic-looking sempervirent sequoia (which American visitor mistook for a ‘Lebanese cedar’ – if they remarked it at all) took them to the absurdly misnamed rue du Mûrier […]
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