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   half-evergreen
         adj 1: of a plant that is incompletely evergreen; "it was
                  evergreen where the weather was mild but deciduous in the
                  rigorous parts of the range" [syn: {semi-evergreen},
                  {half-evergreen}]

English Dictionary: half-evergreen by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Half \Half\ (h[aum]f), a. [AS. healf, half, half; as a noun,
      half, side, part; akin to OS., OFries., & D. half, G. halb,
      Sw. half, Dan. halv, Icel. h[be]lfr, Goth. halbs. Cf.
      {Halve}, {Behalf}.]
      1. Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half
            hour; a half dollar; a half view.
  
      Note: The adjective and noun are often united to form a
               compound.
  
      2. Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half;
            approximately a half, whether more or less; partial;
            imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.
  
                     Assumed from thence a half consent.   --Tennyson.
  
      {Half ape} (Zo[94]l.), a lemur.
  
      {Half back}. (Football) See under 2d {Back}.
  
      {Half bent}, the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in
            the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch.
  
      {Half binding}, a style of bookbinding in which only the back
            and corners are in leather.
  
      {Half boarder}, one who boards in part; specifically, a
            scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only.
  
      {Half-breadth plan} (Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the
            half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines.
  
      {Half cadence} (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant.
  
      {Half cap}, a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      {A half cock}, the position of the cock of a gun when
            retained by the first notch.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Hill of Evil Counsel
      on the south of the Valley of Hinnom. It is so called from a
      tradition that the house of the high priest Caiaphas, when the
      rulers of the Jews resolved to put Christ to death, stood here.
     
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