Found 2 items, similar to ivy.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ivy
ivy
n : Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black
berrylike fruits [syn:
common ivy,
English ivy,
Hedera helix
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ivy
Ivy
\I"vy\, n.; pl.
Ivies. [AS. [=i]fig; akin to OHG. ebawi,
ebah, G. epheu.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus
Hedera (
Hedera 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.
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The clasping ivy where to climb. --Milton.
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Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere. --Milton.
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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 (
Senecio 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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