everblooming

[ ev-er-bloo-ming ]

adjective

1. in bloom throughout most of the growing months of the year.

Word History and Origins

Origin of everblooming¹

First recorded in 1890–95; ever + blooming

Example Sentences

Or maybe elves were not familiar with living dragonvine and everblooming basilisk’s tongue?

From Literature

Unlike the pink-petaled spring bloomers, it’s an everblooming cherry tree, which means it could have flowered in winter.

From New York Times

As regards the everblooming habit of the Seguin parent, that character seems to be lost or at least partly suppressed.

From Project Gutenberg

Further, we have on our Sleeping Giant Plantation, Hamden, Conn., several hybrids, now 16 years old, of the Seguin and the Chinese chestnuts, the former species being also a native of China, but dwarf and everblooming and remarkably prolific.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a flower call'd 'Love in Idleness,' For which see Shakspeare's everblooming garden;— I will not make his great description less, And beg his British godship's humble pardon, If in my extremity of rhyme's distress, I touch a single leaf where he is warden;— But though the flower is different, with the French Or Swiss Rousseau, cry 'Voila la Pervenche!'

From Project Gutenberg