ivied

English

Etymology

From ivy +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪviːd/

Adjective

ivied (comparative more ivied, superlative most ivied)

1. Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.
   • 1951, Sinclair Lewis, World So Wide, Chapter 4, [1]

     […] he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.

   • 1987, Eugene Goodheart, Pieces of Resistance (page 188)

     Even a place as innocent and unsqualid as the ivied Wesleyan University in Connecticut provokes contempt […]

   • 1988, Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture, New York: Knopf, Chapter, pp. 195-6,

     […] great glossy-leaved mango trees ivied with pepper vines […]

Antonyms

• univied

Translations

overgrown with ivy

• Georgian: გაბარდული (gabarduli)
• Irish: eidhneánach, eidhneach
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• Italian: ederoso
• Welsh: eiddewog