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Ivy

Ivy Meaning & Definition
Ivy Definition And Meaning

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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