Ivy

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ivy \I"vy\, n.; pl. {Ivies}. [AS. [imac]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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           Direct
           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} (Zool.), 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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ivy
       n : Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black
           berrylike fruits [syn: {common ivy}, {English ivy}, {Hedera
           helix}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "ivy":
     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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  IVY
       
          A language with a more pleasant syntax than {Perl}, {tcl} or
          {Lisp}.  It has nice features like low punctuation count,
          blocks indicated by indentation, and similarity to normal
          procedural languages.  This language started out as an idea
          for an extension language for the editor {JOE}.
       
          An experimental {interpreter} by Joseph H Allen
           was posted to {alt.sources} on 28 Sep
          1993.