Definition of "semi-evergreen" []

• Of a plant that is incompletely evergreen (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "They thrive in conditions from dry to shady woodland soil, and their foliage is semi-evergreen, so they hold their place in the garden overwinter."
• "The diversity of habitat types in the dry forest region includes scrub and desert, deciduous tropical thorn-scrub forest, deciduous ceiba forest, semi-evergreen lowland and premontane tall forest, and intermontane scrub."
• "It has a leathery leaf, is semi-evergreen and grows moderately fast."