🍓 Produces fruit often 🌱 A fruiting plant

everbearing

5.3

Producing fruit or flowers several times from spring to fall

adjective
/ˈɛvərˌbɛrɪŋ/

Specialized

: remontante

Unlike traditional types, everbearing strawberries can be picked several times each season.

Examples

Gardeners often prefer everbearing varieties for a longer harvest period.
The everbearing raspberry bushes provide fresh fruit from early summer until the first frost.
The everbearing strawberry plants yield fruit all summer long.
I love how everbearing plants provide fresh fruit throughout the season.
The everbearing strawberry plant provides fresh fruit from spring until the first frost.
Everbearing tomatoes can be harvested multiple times throughout the summer months.
Gardeners prefer everbearing varieties because they yield fruit continuously rather than all at once.

Antonyms

seasonal

85 2.7

Happening only at a certain time of year, like summer or winter

one-time

55 4.5

A person or thing that used to be something but is not now

How Often

everbearing

Specialized

5.3

perennial

20 5.1

seasonal

85 2.7

annual

Specialized

11 2.7

Surface Forms

everbearing positive

Morphology

everbearing = bearing (transparent) = ever + bear + ing

The meaning is directly composed from 'ever' + 'bearing' (= producing), yielding 'producing continuously'; learners can infer this from the parts.

Etymology

The word everbearing comes from ever ('always') and bearing ('to produce'), so as an adjective it describes plants that keep producing fruit or flowers throughout the growing season.