"Sempervirent" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Ever-lasting, or always present, usually in reference to a green or lush state of vegetation.
The term 'semivowel' is a phonetic or phonological term of the international phonetic alphabet that is used to denote non-full vowels. In English, the most frequently cited semivowels are Y and W. The term "semivowel" is used because these letters can function as either consonants or vowels, depending on how they are pronounced in a specific word.