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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.
[L. semper, always and virens, flourishing.] Always fresh; evergreen.

Definition 2024


sempervirent

sempervirent

English

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 [...].