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i⋅vy
[ahy-vee] 
noun, plural i⋅vies, adjective –noun
| 1. | Also called English ivy. a climbing vine, Hedera helix, having smooth, shiny, evergreen leaves, small, yellowish flowers, and black berries, grown as an ornamental. |
| 2. | any of various other climbing or trailing plants. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME ivi; OE ifig; akin to G Efeu
bef. 900; ME ivi; OE ifig; akin to G Efeu
Related forms:
i⋅vy⋅like, adjective
I⋅vy
[ahy-vee] –noun
| a female given name. |
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| i·vy (ī'vē) n. pl. i·vies
[Middle English ivi, from Old English īfig.] |
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Ivy
I"vy\, n.; pl. Ivies. [AS. [=i]fig; akin to OHG. ebawi, ebah, G. epheu.] (Bot.) 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. 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 (S. 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.
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ivy
O.E. ifig, from W.Gmc. *ibakhs (cf. M.L.G. iflof, Du. eiloof, O.H.G. ebahewi, Ger. Efeu), of unknown origin; the second element in the O.H.G. word may be "hay." Ivy bush as a sign of a tavern where wine is served is attested from 1436. Ivy League, inspired by the notion of old, ivy-coated walls, dates to 1933. (It consists of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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
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