everlasting flower

2 definitions found

everlasting flower - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Everlasting \Ever*last"ing\a.
     1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing
        without end; immortal; eternal. "The Everlasting God."
        --Gen. xx1. 33.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period;
        perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong
        intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . .
              . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
                                                    --Gen xvii. 8.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
              The pains and penalties of idleness.  --Pope.
  
     Syn: Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending;
          infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual;
          unintermitted; incessant.
  
     Usage: -- Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when
            taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration;
            everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the
            Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern
            usage is confined to the future, and implies no
            intermission as well as no end.
            [1913 Webster]
  
                  Whether we shall meet again I know not;
                  Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
                  Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. --Shak.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3.
  
     Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus  latifolius
        ) related to the pea; -- so called because it
        is perennial.
        [1913 Webster]

everlasting flower - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  everlasting flower
      n 1: any of various plants of various genera of the family
           Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of
           form or color [syn: everlasting, everlasting flower]