hederal

English

Etymology

From hedera or Hedera (“genus name”), from Latin.

Adjective

hederal (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or composed of ivy.
   • a. 1878, Godey's Magazine, Volume 116, page 368,

     Unsightly places may be hidden from view by hederal screens, […] .

   • 1884, Charles Wilkins, editor, The Red Dragon, the national magazine of Wales, volume 5, page 502:

     […] he cannot, with justice, however unequal the product, be accused, at least, of plagiarism, the absence of which, he ventures to submit, is in these days as distinctive a merit as was the hederal coronet of the Olympic festival to him whose temple it adorned.