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i⋅vy

  [ahy-vee] noun, plural i⋅vies, adjective
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–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.
–adjective
3. (often initial capital letter) Ivy League (def. 2).
4. New England. mountain laurel.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME ivi; OE ifig; akin to G Efeu

Related forms:
i⋅vy⋅like, adjective
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I⋅vy

  [ahy-vee]
–noun
a female given name.
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i·vy   (ī'vē)   
n.   pl. i·vies

  1. Any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera native to the Old World, especially H. helix, having palmately lobed leaves, root-bearing young stems, and small green flowers grouped in umbels.

  2. Ivy Informal A university in the Ivy League. Often used in the plural: Cornell is one of the Ivies.


[Middle English ivi, from Old English īfig.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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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Computing Dictionary

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.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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