Definition of ivy

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Ivy (n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. 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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Privily :: Privily (adv.) In a privy manner; privately; secretly.
Hederiferous :: Hederiferous (a.) Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.
Hederic :: Hederic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series..
Hederose :: Hederose (a.) Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy..
Radicant :: Radicant (a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy..
Thyrsus :: Thyrsus (n.) A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites..
Root :: Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphy
Ivied :: Ivied (a.) Overgrown with ivy.
Chivy :: Chivy (v. t.) To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch..
Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy..
Tantivy :: Tantivy (v. i.) To go away in haste.
Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A privy near the bow of the vessel.
Transcribe :: Transcribe (v. t.) To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter..
Draught :: Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
Tantivy :: Tantivy (adv.) Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy..
Crampon :: Crampon (n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy..
Decadist :: Decadist (n.) A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist..
Privy :: Privy (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
Patavinity :: Patavinity (n.) The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity..
Draughthouse :: Draughthouse (n.) A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.
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