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🍓 Produces fruit often 🌱 A fruiting plant
everbearing

everbearing

6.7
A plant that produces fruit or flowers several times from spring to fall
  • noun
  • /ˈɛvərˌbɛrɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : planta remontante
  • In addition to Junebeating (one-crop) and everbearing (two-crop) varieties, they have introduced day-neutral strawberries that bear fruit in the spring, summer, and well into the fall.

Examples

  • The garden was filled with everbearing plants, allowing us to enjoy fresh strawberries all summer long.

  • Everbearing varieties of everbearing raspberries produce fruit multiple times during the season, making them popular among gardeners.

  • I planted everbearing strawberries, so I can expect to harvest delicious fruit from spring to fall.

Synonyms

remontant
vseverbearing
  • Specialized
9.9

A plant that blooms more than once in the same season

produces flowers or fruit continuously or several times during the growing season

Antonyms

occasional
285 2.8

Happening now and then but not often

seasonal
85 2.7

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

How Often

everbearing
  • Specialized
6.7
remontant
  • Specialized
9.7
annual
  • Specialized
11 2.7

Surface Forms

everbearing singular
everbearings plural

Morphology

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

The meaning is directly compositional: something that is 'ever bearing' bears fruit or flowers continuously.

Etymology

Everbearing as a noun names a plant that keeps producing fruit or flowers. It comes from ever ('always') and bearing ('to produce'), so an everbearing is a plant you can pick from many times during the season.