Ivy

English

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Ivy growing near and climbing up trees.

Noun

Ivy (plural ivies)

1. Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.

Hypernyms

• climber
• creeper

Coordinate terms

• kudzu
• vine

Derived terms

• ivied
• Ivy League
• poison ivy

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

From Middle English ivi, from Old English īfig, from Proto-Germanic *ibahs (compare Middle Low German iwlōf, iflōf, Dutch (Flemish) eiloof, German Efeu); akin to Ancient Greek plant (iphyon).

Pronunciation

• enPR: īʹvē, IPA: /ˈaɪvi/, SAMPA: /"aIvi/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvi

Translations

plant

Albanian: dredhkë (sq) f. Arabic: اللبلاب (ar) Armenian: բաղեղ (hy) (baġeġ) Catalan: heura (ca) f. Croatian: bršljan (hr) m. Czech: břečťan (cs) m. Dacian: arpropria Esperanto: hedero (eo) Finnish: muratti (fi) French: lierre (fr) m. German: Efeu (de) m. Greek: κισσός (el) (kissós) m. Hungarian: borostyán (hu) Italian: edera (it) f.

Latin: hedera (la) f. Macedonian: бршлен (mk) (b'ršlen) m. Mandarin: 常春藤 (cmn) (chángchūnténg) Polish: bluszcz (pl) m. Portuguese: hera (pt) f. Romanian: iederă (ro) f. Russian: плющ (ru) m. Scottish Gaelic: eidheann (gd) f. Serbian: bršljan (sr) m. Spanish: hiedra (es) f. Swahili: mwefeu (sw), lablabu (sw) Turkish: sarmaşık (tr)

university in the Ivy League

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Translations to be checked

Romanian: iederă f. Slovak: brečtan m.

Spanish: hiedra f. Welsh: eiddew, iorwg

External links

• 15px Ivy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia