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Ivy : \I"vy\, n.; pl. Ivies. [AS. [=i]fig; akin to OHG. ebawi,
ebah, G. epheu.] (Bot.)
Hedera_({H._helix">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">Senecio ({S. scandens).
Ground_ivy._(Bot.)_Gill_({Nepeta_Glechoma">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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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
was posted to alt.sources on 28 Sep
1993.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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