[ noun ] Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits <noun.plant>
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.
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} ({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}.
Of their wrongdoing they knew not; such things as daisies, ground ivy, mulleins and bedstraw were actually considered useful in 17th-century New England.
A small disk coated with poison ivy extracts was taped over the treated area for eight hours.
Although "Empire Builders" is just hitting the bookshelves, it has become a cause celebre inside the ivy walls of the business school.
He has used dwarf azaleas, golden pothos, bamboo palms, English ivy, pot mums and other plants.
Each spring and summer for the past decade, unsuspecting swimmers from Deerfield Beach to Jensen Beach have returned home to have their bodies erupt in welts that look like insect bites and itch like poison ivy.
One plant not valued by gardeners is poison ivy.
No upstanding neighborhood pub is without its windowbox of ivy and geraniums.
Maybe mares and does and little lambs can survive on oats and ivy.