Evergreen

Adjective

 * 1) Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.
 * 2) Continually fresh or self-renewing; often used metaphorically.
 * 3) Of a document or dataset, continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and being slightly outdated in-between those publication dates)
 * 4)  Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.

Antonyms

 * deciduous

Derived terms

 * evergreenness
 * evergreen oak
 * half-evergreen
 * semi-evergreen, semievergreen

Noun

 * 1) A tree or shrub that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.
 * 2)  More specifically, a conifer tree.
 * 3)  A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.

Verb

 * 1)  To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.
 * 2)  To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.

Thesaurus
abiding, age-long, aged, amphibian, ancient, angiosperm, annual, antique, aquatic plant, arborary, arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arborical, arboriform, biennial, bushlike, bushy, callow, chronic, citrous, conifer, coniferous, constant, continuing, cosmopolite, cutting, deciduous, deciduous plant, dendriform, dendritic, dendroid, dewy, dicot, dicotyledon, diuturnal, durable, enduring, ephemeral, ever-blooming, ever-new, exotic, firsthand, fledgling, flowering plant, fresh, fruit tree, fungus, gametophyte, green, gymnosperm, half-hardy, hardwood, hardwood tree, hardy, hydrophyte, immature, immutable, indeciduous, intact, intransient, inveterate, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, macrobiotic, maiden, maidenly, monocot, monocotyl, neoteric, nestling, new, nondeciduous, of long duration, of long standing, original, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, piny, plant, pollard, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, pristine, raw, remaining, sapling, scrubbly, scrubby, scrublike, seed plant, seedling, sempervirent, shade tree, shrubby, shrublike, softwood, softwood tree, spermatophyte, sporophyte, stable, staying, steadfast, thallophyte, timber, timber tree, tough, tree, treelike, triennial, unbeaten, undeveloped, unfading, unfledged, unhandled, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, vascular plant, vegetable, vernal, virgin, virginal, vital, weed, young

Etymology
From

Derived terms

 * Chinese evergreen

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Danish: stedsegrøn
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ainavihanta,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: síorghlas
 * Mandarin: 常青


 * Manx: sheer-ghlass
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: eviggrønn
 * Nynorsk: eviggrøn
 * Portuguese: sempre-verde
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: bith-bheò, sìor-bheò, sìor-uaine, sìor-ghorm
 * Spanish: perennifolio, perennifolia

Noun

 * Esperanto:
 * German:
 * Irish: crann síorghlas


 * Mandarin: 常青树
 * Portuguese: sempre-verde
 * Scottish Gaelic: craobh shìor-ghorm

Noun

 * 1) classic song, evergreen song, song that is ever popular

Noun

 * 1) classic song, evergreen song, song that is ever popular