ivy
noun
a climbing vine, Hedera helix, having smooth, shiny, evergreen leaves, small, yellowish flowers, and black berries, grown as an ornamental.
ivies
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pluralof ivy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Costa Farms, a major wholesale grower of houseplants, has a broad range of ivies designed for use indoors, though many are hardy in the Mid-Atlantic and would work as outdoor container plantings.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2017
Perhaps this is passe as well, but ivies can be grown on wire forms to produce topiaries.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2017
Consider planting akebias, climbing roses and noninvasive ivies to hide the fence and create a living wall.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2013
Kate Nesbitt, like a hard wall beneath gracious ivies, considers her best-loved daughter as good as dead.
From Time Magazine Archive
My garden-herbs, in fragrance warm, Our various chaplets wait to form; My tender ivies grow, That, twining in thy amber hair, Add jocund spirit to thine air, And whiteness to thy brow.
From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward
