evergreen.

1. Keeping living leaves through the year rather than shedding all of them seasonally.

2. Continuing to be useful, relevant, or popular over a long period.

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Words that belong together

• evergreen forest
• evergreen shrub

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An evergreen forest enclosed the northern road.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.