ivy : Idioms & Phrases

• noun common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
  Parthenocissus quinquefolia; woodbine; Virginia creeper.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Virginia creeper.
• . See Virginia creeper.

Webster 1913

• noun Asiatic vine with three-lobed leaves and purple berries
  Parthenocissus tricuspidata; Boston ivy.
  

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• noun Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits
  Hedera helix; ivy; common ivy.
  

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• noun Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits
  Hedera helix; ivy; common ivy.
  

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• (Bot.), a popular name in America for the ivy proper (Hedera helix).

Webster 1913

• noun South African succulent evergreen twining climber with yellow flowers grown primarily as a houseplant for its foliage; sometimes placed in genus Senecio
  Delairea odorata; Senecio milkanioides.
  

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• (Bot.), a creeping plant, with smooth, succulent stems, and fleshy, light-green leaves; a species of Senecio (S. scandens).

Webster 1913

• noun trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta
  field balm; runaway robin; Nepeta hederaceae; Glechoma hederaceae; alehoof; gill-over-the-ground.
  

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• . (Bot.) A trailing plant; alehoof. See Gill.
• . (Bot.) Gill (Nepeta Glechoma).

Webster 1913

• noun evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage
  Epipremnum aureum; golden pothos; Scindapsus aureus; pothos.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Mountain laurel, under Mountain.

Webster 1913

• noun mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera
  family Araliaceae; Araliaceae.
  

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• noun a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers
  hanging geranium; Pelargonium peltatum; ivy geranium.
  

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• noun a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige
  

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• noun a student or graduate at an Ivy League school
  

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• (Zoöl.), the barn owl.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), the ivy plant. Tennyson.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite overgrown with ivy
  ivied.
  
  • Harvard's ivied buildings

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• noun a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers
  hanging geranium; Pelargonium peltatum; ivy geranium.
  

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I"vy-man`tled adjective

Definitions

1. Covered with ivy.

Webster 1913

• noun Asiatic vine with three-lobed leaves and purple berries
  Parthenocissus tricuspidata; Boston ivy.
  

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• (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ampelopsis tricuspidata), closely related to the Virginia creeper.

Webster 1913

• noun dermatitis resulting from contact with the poison ivy plant
  
  • my poison ivy is drying up
• noun climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact
  poison mercury; poison oak; Toxicodendron radicans; markweed; Rhus radicans.
  

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• (Bot.), a poisonous climbing plant (Rhus Toxicodendron) of North America. It is common on stone walls and on the trunks of trees, and has trifoliate, rhombic-ovate, variously notched leaves. Many people are poisoned by it, if they touch the leaves. See Poison sumac. Called also poison oak, and mercury.
• (Bot.), an American woody creeper (Rhus Toxicodendron), with trifoliate leaves, and greenish-white berries. It is exceedingly poisonous to the touch for most persons.

Webster 1913

• noun fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers
  dog laurel; Leucothoe editorum; Leucothoe fontanesiana; dog hobble.
  

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• to console one's self as best one can. Obs. Chaucer.

Webster 1913

• a climbing plant of the genus Marcgravia.

Webster 1913