About The Word Ivy
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Ivy
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What's The Definition Of Ivy?
[n] Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ivy: common ivy | English ivy | Hedera helix Related Terms | Find terms related to Ivy: aestival | algae | autophyte | bean | beryl-green | berylline | blue-green | bluish-green | bracken | brown algae | chartreuse | chloranemic | chlorine | chlorotic | citrine | citrinous | climber | conferva | confervoid | creeper | diatom | emerald | fern | foliaged | fruits and vegetables | fucus | fungus | glaucescent | glaucous | glaucous-green | grapevine | grassy | green | green algae | green as grass | green-blue | greenish | greenish-blue | greenish-yellow | greensick | gulfweed | herb | heterophyte | holly | ivy-green | kelp | leafy | leaved | legume | lentil | liana | lichen | liverwort | mold | moss | mushroom | olivaceous | olive | olive-green | parasite | parasitic plant | pea | perthophyte | phytoplankton | planktonic algae | plant families | porraceous | puffball | pulse | red algae | rockweed | rust | saprophyte | sargasso | sargassum | sea lentil | sea moss | sea wrack | seaweed | smaragdine | smut | springlike | succulent | summerlike | summery | toadstool | verdant | verdurous | vernal | vernant | vert | vetch | vine | virescent | wort | wrack | yellowish-green See Also | genus Hedera | Hedera | vine Ivy In Webster's Dictionary \I"vy\, n.; pl. {Ivies}. [AS. [=i]fig; akin to OHG. ebawi,
ebah, G. epheu.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus {Hedera} ({H. helix}), common in Europe.
Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly
five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries
black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by
rootlike fibers.
Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. --Milton.
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere. --Milton.
{American ivy}. (Bot.) See {Virginia creeper}.
{English ivy} (Bot.), a popular name in America for the ivy
proper ({Hedera helix}).
{German ivy} (Bot.), a creeping plant, with smooth, succulent
stems, and fleshy, light-green leaves; a species of
{Senecio} ({S. scandens}).
{Ground ivy}. (Bot.) Gill ({Nepeta Glechoma}).
{Ivy bush}. (Bot.) See {Mountain laurel}, under {Mountain}.
{Ivy owl} (Zo["o]l.), the barn owl.
{Ivy tod} (Bot.), the ivy plant. --Tennyson.
{Japanese ivy} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Ampelopsis
tricuspidata}), closely related to the Virginia creeper.
{Poison ivy} (Bot.), an American woody creeper ({Rhus
Toxicodendron}), with trifoliate leaves, and
greenish-white berries. It is exceedingly poisonous to the
touch for most persons.
{To pipe in an ivy leaf}, to console one's self as best one
can. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{West Indian ivy}, a climbing plant of the genus
{Marcgravia}.
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