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Webster 1913 Edition
Sempervirent
Semˊper-vi′rent
,Adj.
[L.
semper
always + virens
, p. pr. of virere
to be green.] Always fresh; evergreen.
[R.]
Smart.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sempervirent
SEMPERVI'RENT
,Adj.
Definition 2024
sempervirent
sempervirent
English
Adjective
sempervirent (not comparable)
- 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 [...].
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 408: