1. any of several woody, climbing or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera native to the old world, especially H. helix, having palmately lobed leaves, root-bearing young stems, and small green flowers grouped in umbels.
2. informal A university in the ivy league. often used in the plural: cornell is one of the ivies.

1. any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.

1. A plant of the genus Hedera (Hedera 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.

1. to cover with ivy.
2. an epiphytic climbing plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), natural order Araliaceæ, and the type of the series Hedereæ.
3. ground-pine: chiefly in the compound herb-ivy.
4. 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.
5. the Macquarie harbor grape, Calacinum adpressum.
6. the naturalized cape or german ivy, Senecio mikanioides. see Senecio, 1.

1. old world vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits