immortelle

American  

[im-awr-tel] / ˌɪm ɔrˈtɛl /

noun

1. an everlasting plant or flower, especially Xeranthemum annuum.

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immortelle British  

/ ˌɪmɔːˈtɛl /

noun

1. Also called: everlasting.   everlasting flower.  any of various plants, mostly of the family Asteraceae (composites), that retain their colour when dried, esp Xeranthemum annuum

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Etymology

Origin of immortelle

1825–35; < French, noun use of feminine of immortel immortal; see -elle

Example Sentences

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immortelle

And there was the flower known as immortelle, which forms “middle notes,” whose scent remain after the first vanish.

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

In the end, however, he realizes that what has sustained him all along are the "immortelle" and "wild mammy-apple" of his "generous Eden."

From Time Magazine Archive

I have set many flowers around Henry's grave, which are blossoming; pansies, white immortelle, white petunia, and verbenas.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are many flowers of time, we know, which cannot be transplanted; but "love never faileth," love is the true immortelle.

From The Teaching of Jesus by George Jackson

Above all towers the bois immortelle, called by the Spaniards la madre del cacao, "the mother of the cacao."

From The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Brandon Head