everlasting

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: everlasting

1	adj	continuing forever or indefinitely
2	n	any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: everlasting

“life everlasting”

Synonyms:: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending

: lasting, permanent
continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

Synonyms:: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter

: unmitigated
not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; Acroclinium roseum, pink paper daisy, pink-and-white everlasting
flower of southwestern Australia having bright pink daisylike papery flowers; grown for drying; Anaphalis margaritacea, cottonweed, pearly everlasting
an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts; cudweed
any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color; Helichrysum bracteatum, golden everlasting, strawflower, yellow paper daisy
Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers; strawflower
any of various plants of the genus Helipterum; Helichrysum secundiflorum, Ozothamnus secundiflorus, cascade everlasting
shrub with white woolly branches and woolly leaves having fragrant flowers forming long sprays; flowers suitable for drying; sometimes placed in genus Helichrysum; Helipterum manglesii, Rhodanthe manglesii, Swan River everlasting, rhodanthe
Australian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Helipterum; Xeranthemum annuum, immortelle
mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere; Gnaphalium sylvaticum, chafeweed, wood cudweed
weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike

Type of:: composite, composite plant
considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers

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