ivied
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ivied (comparative more ivied, superlative most ivied)
- Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.
- Antonym: univied
- 1880, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, “Battery and Assumpsit”, in Mary Anerley. A Yorkshire Tale. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 33:
- […] Lancelot Carnaby stopped from his rash venture into the water, and drew himself back into an ivied bush, which served as the finial of the little garden-hedge.
- 1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 4, in World so Wide […], New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 35:
- But 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, pages 195–196:
- […] great glossy-leaved mango trees ivied with pepper vines […]
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overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant
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