sempervirent en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /sɛmpɚˈvaɪɹənt/ (General-American)
- /sɛmpəˈvaɪɹənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Latin semper (“always”) + virēns, present participle of vireō (“be green”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Evergreen.
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, published 2011, page 408: