sempervirent

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /sɛmpəˈvaɪɹənt/
• (GA) IPA: /sɛmpɚˈvaɪɹənt/

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 […]

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