ivy

See also: Ivy and -ivý

English

Ivy growing near and climbing up trees.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English ivi, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English īfiġ, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *ibahs (compare West Flemish iefte, Low German Eiloov, Ieloof, German Efeu), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ- (compare Welsh efwr ‘black elder’, Ancient Greek ἴφυον (íphuon, “spike-lavender, Lavandula Spica”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: īʹvē, IPA^(key): /ˈaɪvi/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvi

Noun

ivy (countable and uncountable, plural ivies)

1. Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.
2. Any similar plant of any genus.

Hypernyms

• climber, creeper, liana

Hyponyms

• (plants in Hedera): See Hedera.

Coordinate terms

• kudzu
• vine

Derived terms

Terms derived fron ivy

• Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
• Cape ivy ()
• coliseum ivy, Kenilworth ivy, Oxford ivy ()
• devil's ivy ()
• German ivy ( and )
• grape ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
• ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
• ivied
• Ivybridge
• Ivy City
• Ivy League
• ivy of Uruguay ()
• ivy tree ()
• Japanese ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata)
• Natal ivy ()
• parlour ivy ()
• poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
• purple ivy ()
• red-flame ivy ()
• Swedish ivy ()
• switch ivy ()
• wax ivy ()

Translations

plant

• Albanian: dredhkë (sq) f, hurdhe f
• Arabic: لَبْلَاب m (lablāb)
• Armenian: բաղեղ (hy) (baġeġ)
• Aromanian: eadirã f, eadiri f, iadirã f
• Azerbaijani: sarmaşıq (az)
• Bulgarian: бръшлян m (brǎšljan)
• Catalan: heura (ca) f, hedra (ca) f
• Chechen: хутал-буц (xutal-buc)
• Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏗ (ulvdi)
• Cornish: idhyow f pl
• Czech: břečťan (cs) m
• Dacian: arpropria
• Danish: efeu c, vedbend
• Dutch: klimop (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: hedero
• Estonian: luuderohi (et)
• Faroese: viðbenda f, viðbendil m
• Finnish: muratti (fi)
• French: lierre (fr) m
• Friulian: jêre f
• Galician: hedra f, hedreira f, malvela f, areira f, ireira f
• Georgian: სურო (suro)
• German: Efeu (de) m or n
• Greek: κισσός (el) m (kissós)

  Ancient: κισσός m (kissós)

• Hungarian: borostyán (hu)
• Ido: hedero (io)
• Irish: eidhneachán m, eidhneán m, eidheann m
• Italian: edera (it) f
• Japanese: ツタ (tsuta)
• Korean: 담쟁이덩굴 (ko) (damjaeng'ideonggul)
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• Latin: hedera f
• Low German: Ieloof n
• Macedonian: бршлен m (bršlen)
• Mandarin: 常春藤 (zh) (chángchūnténg)
• Manx: hibbin
• Norwegian: eføy (no) m
• Novial:
• Occitan: èdra (oc) f
• Old English: īfiġ n
• Persian: سن (fa) (san), پاپیتال (fa) (pâpitâl)
• Polish: bluszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: hera (pt) f
• Romanian: iederă (ro) f
• Romansch: fegliadella f, edra f
• Russian: плющ (ru) m (pljušč)
• Sardinian: edora f, edola, edera
• Scottish Gaelic: eidheann f, eidheannach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бршљан m

  Roman: bršljan (sh) m

• Sicilian: èdira (scn) f, èddira (scn), ètira (scn), èddara (scn), arrèddira (scn) f, lèddira (scn) f
• Slovak: brečtan m
• Spanish: hiedra (es) f
• Swahili: mwefeu, lablabu
• Swedish: murgröna (sv)
• Turkish: sarmaşık (tr)
• Ukrainian: плющ m (pljušč)
• Venetian: ènera, èrena, èrna, èłira, èroła f
• Volapük: hed (vo)
• Welsh: iorwg m, eiddew m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} brečtan m
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• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} eiddew, ^{(please verify)} iorwg

Further reading

• ivy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hedera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies