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The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids.
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A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.
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A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites.
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Of or pertaining to ivy.
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Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.
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Pertaining to, or of, ivy; full of ivy.
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Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.
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One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy.
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A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy.
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Overgrown with ivy.
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A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.
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Covered with ivy.
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of Ivy
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A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, ivy.
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Ground ivy; alehoof.
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Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.
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A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, the ivy (Hedera); as, hederic acid, an acid of the acetylene series.
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An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
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