ivy

A widely cultivated evergreen climbing plant (Hedera helix) native to Eurasia, having palmately lobed leaves, root-bearing young stems, small green flowers grouped in umbels, and blackish or yellowish berries.

Any of several other woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera of the Northern Hemisphere.

Any of various creeping or trailing plants of other genera, such as Boston ivy, ground ivy, or Virginia creeper.

Poison ivy.

A university in the Ivy League.

Ground-pine: chiefly in the compound herb-ivy.

To cover with ivy.

In Australia, the cultivated varieties of Pelargonium peltatum, commonly known as ivy-leaved geraniums, which are there trained over fences and walls, sometimes to a height of 20 or 30 feet, supplanting the English or common ivy in this use. See ivy-leaved geranium.