From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ivy \I"vy\, noun; pl. {Ivies}. [AS. [=i]fig; akin to OHG. ebawi, ebah, G. epheu.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Hedera} ({Hedera 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} ({Senecio 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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits [syn: {common ivy}, {English ivy}, {Hedera helix}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
97 Moby Thesaurus words for "ivy": aestival, algae, autophyte, bean, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, bracken, brown algae, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, emerald, fern, foliaged, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grapevine, grassy, green, green algae, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, holly, ivy-green, kelp, leafy, leaved, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, porraceous, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smaragdine, smut, springlike, succulent, summerlike, summery, toadstool, verdant, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, vetch, vine, virescent, wort, wrack, yellowish-green
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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.
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