Evergreen vs. Redwood — What's the Difference?

In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional through more than one growing season. This also pertains to plants that retain their foliage only in warm climates, and contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season.

A very tall, evergreen coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) native to the coastal ranges of southern Oregon and central and northern California, having thick bark, leaves that are needlelike or scalelike, and small cones.

Having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year.

The soft reddish decay-resistant wood of this tree. Also called coast redwood.

Perennially fresh or interesting; enduring.

Either of two similar trees, the giant sequoia or the dawn redwood.

Automatically renewed or repeatedly made valid

Any of various woods having a reddish color or yielding a red dye.

A tree, shrub, or plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year.

The species Sequoia sempervirens.

Evergreens Twigs or branches of evergreen plants used as decoration.

(countable) Any of the evergreen conifers belonging to the genus Sequoia in the wide sense.

Something that remains perennially fresh, interesting, or well liked.

(uncountable) The wood of the species Sequoia sempervirens.

Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.

Wood of the species Pinus sylvestris.

Continually fresh or self-renewing.

(countable) The tree Manilkara bidentata harvested for timber and latex.

(contracts) Being a clause which causes an automatic renewal of a contract unless action is taken.

(uncountable) Timber from the Manilkara bidentata tree.

(computing) Of a document, a piece of software, or a dataset, being continually up-to-date (as opposed to being published at regular intervals and outdated in the meantime)

A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.

(broadcasting) Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.

The soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees

A shrub or tree that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.

Either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae

A conifer tree.

A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.

To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.

(banking) To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.

Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.

An evergreen plant.

Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.

A plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year

(of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year