Difference between evergreen and breadfruit
Definitions
adjective
- (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year
noun
- a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year
Examples
Something about paper walls, I think, about archery, and a good deal about evergreen laurel, myrtle and wild camellia.
Because the loquat, or Japanese plum, is symmetrical and has a dense, evergreen crown, it is desirable in the home landscape.
But the rest of the rhododendrons and evergreen azaleas kept their rich green color.
Definitions
noun
- native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
- a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts
Examples
They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river.
In the Caribbean, the leaves of the breadfruit are used in folk medicine to relieve pain and inflammation.
Farmers can harvest avocados, bananas, breadfruits, mangoes, and oranges, as well as medicinal plants, rubber, and timber.
