hedera
- See ivy (def. 1)
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Latin: ivy
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Hedera, hed′er-a, n. a genus of climbing plants, best represented by the common ivy.
No higher praise could be given to a beauty than that she was "Hedera formosior alba."
The plant-lore and garden-craft of ShakespeareHenry Nicholson Ellacombe