ivied

English

Etymology

From ivy +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪviːd/

Adjective

ivied (comparative more ivied, superlative most ivied)

1. 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 […]

Translations

overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant

• Georgian: გაბარდული (gabarduli)
• Irish: eidhneánach, eidhneach
• Italian: ederoso
• Welsh: eiddewog