Found 1 definition: ivy.
Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]
Noun ivy has 1 senses
ivy(n = noun.plant) common ivy, english ivy, hedera helix - Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits;
is a kind of vine
is a member of genus hedera, hedera
[CIDE DICTIONARY]
ivy, n. [AS. īfig; akin to OHG. ebawi, ebah, G. epheu.].
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. [1913 Webster]
"Direct
The clasping ivy where to climb." [1913 Webster]
"Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere." [1913 Webster]
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 (Zoöl.), 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.
[OXFORD DICTIONARY]
ivy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a climbing evergreen shrub, Hedera helix, with usu. dark-green shining five-angled leaves.
2 any of various other climbing plants including ground ivy and poison ivy.
Ivy League a group of universities in the eastern US.
OE ifig
[RELATED WORDS]
american ivy, boston ivy, common ivy, english ivy, german ivy, ground ivy, ivy arum, ivy family, ivy geranium, ivy league, ivy leaguer, japanese ivy, poison ivy