English-Thai Dictionary
ivy
N ไม้เลื้อย พวก Hedera helix
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
IVY
n.A parasitic plant of the genus Hedera, which creeps along the ground, or if it finds support, rises on trees or buildings, climbing to a great highth.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
IVY
I "vy, n.; pl. Ivies. Etym: [AS. ifig; akin to OHG. ebawi, ebah, G.epheu.] (Bot. )
Defn: 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 (Zoöl.), 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.
New American Oxford Dictionary
ivy
i vy |ˈīvē ˈaɪvi | ▶noun a woody evergreen Eurasian climbing plant, typically having shiny, dark green five-pointed leaves. [Genus Hedera, family Araliaceae: several species, in particular the common English ivy (H. helix ), which is often seen climbing on tree trunks and walls. ] • used in names of similar climbing plants, e.g., poison ivy, Boston ivy. ORIGIN Old English īfig, of Germanic origin; related to the first elements of Dutch eiloof and German Efeu .
Oxford Dictionary
ivy
ivy |ˈʌɪvi | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a woody evergreen Eurasian climbing plant, typically having shiny, dark green five-pointed leaves. ●Genus Hedera, family Araliaceae: several species, in particular the common H. helix, which is often seen climbing on tree trunks and walls. • used in names of climbing plants similar to ivy, e.g. poison ivy, Boston ivy. ORIGIN Old English īfig, of Germanic origin; related to the first elements of Dutch eiloof and German Efeu .
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
ivy
i vy /áɪvi /名詞 複 ivies C U 1 〘植 〙ツタ .2 (一般に )ツル植物 .Ì - L é ague 〖通例the ～〗アイビーリーグ 〘米国東部の名門大学グループ; Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale 〙.Ì - L é aguer アイビーリーグの学生 [卒業生 ].
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