different between ivy vs ivied

English

Etymology

From Middle English ivi, from Old English ?fi?, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *ibahs (compare West Flemish iefte, Low German Eiloov, Ieloof, German Efeu), from Proto-Indo-European *(h?)eb?- (compare Welsh efwr (“black elder”), Ancient Greek ????? (íphuon, “spike-lavender, Lavandula Spica”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??v?, IPA^(key): /?a?vi/
• Rhymes: -a?vi

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

Translations

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From ivy +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?vi?d/

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