everlasting

1. Any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color (synset 111936368)
   is a type of: composite, composite plant - considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers
   subtypes:

   • 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
   • golden everlasting, helichrysum bracteatum, 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
   • cascade everlasting, helichrysum secundiflorum, ozothamnus secundiflorus - 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, rhodanthe manglesii, swan river everlasting - Australian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Helipterum
   • immortelle, xeranthemum annuum - mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere
   belongs to: aster family, asteraceae, compositae, family asteraceae, family compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia
   same as: everlasting flower

1. Continuing forever or indefinitely (synset 301759536)
   "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"
   similar to: lasting, permanent - continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place
   same as: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, perpetual, unceasing, unending
2. Without qualification;
   Used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers (synset 301524174)
   "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thorough nuisance"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
   similar to: unmitigated - not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier
   same as: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter

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