ivied

Etymology

From ivy + -ed.

adj

  1. Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.
    […] 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. 1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World So Wide
    Even a place as innocent and unsqualid as the ivied Wesleyan University in Connecticut provokes contempt[…] 1987, Eugene Goodheart, Pieces of Resistance, page 188
    […] great glossy-leaved mango trees ivied with pepper vines […] 1988, Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture, New York: Knopf, Chapter, pp. 195-6

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