ivy
Speech parts
1. ivy - Noun
2. Ivy - Proper noun
Meaning
A plant of the genus Hedera (H. 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.
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Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?
Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
You will wear the ivy wreath, the victor's meed.
Have a mouth of ivy and a heart of holly.