Evergreen vs Vinca - What's the difference?
evergreen | vinca |
Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.
* 1902: Henry Van Dyke, The Blue Flower [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=287397704&textreg=2&query=+evergreen&id=DykBlue]
Continually fresh or self-renewing; often used metaphorically.
Of a document or dataset, continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and being slightly outdated in-between those publication dates)
(broadcasting) Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.
* 2001 , Christopher H Sterling, John M Kittross, Stay Tuned (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2001, p. 654)
A tree or shrub that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.
(informal) More specifically, a conifer tree.
* 1858: Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=618074587&textreg=1&query=+evergreen&id=ThoMain]
* 1958: Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode
(colloquial) A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.
(patents, pharmaceuticals) To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.
(banking) To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.
Any of several evergreen shrubs, of the genus Vinca , including the periwinkle
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As nouns the difference between evergreen and vinca
is that evergreen is a tree or shrub that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally while vinca is any of several evergreen shrubs, of the genus vinca , including the periwinkle.As a adjective evergreen
is of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.As a verb evergreen
is (patents|pharmaceuticals) to extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.evergreen
English
Adjective
(-) (wikipedia evergreen)- ...these three little creeping vines put forth their hands with joy, and spread over rock and hillock and twisted tree-root and mouldering log, in cloaks and scarves and wreaths of tiny evergreen , glossy leaves.
- Another change in the news was emphasis on “evergreen ” features involving attractive children or animals, parades or fireworks, as well as local developments.
Antonyms
* deciduousDerived terms
* evergreenness * evergreen oak * half-evergreen * semi-evergreen, semievergreenNoun
(en noun)- The spruce and fir trees crowded to the track on each side to welcome us, the arbor- vitae, with its changing leaves, prompted us to make haste, and the sight of the canoe-birch gave us spirits to do so. Sometimes an evergreen just fallen lay across the track with its rich burden of cones, looking, still, fuller of life than our trees in the most favorable positions.
- Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans,
- Way back up in the woods among the evergreens ,
- There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
- Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
