ivied

Definition

Overgrown with ivy or another climbing plant.

Etymology

From ivy + -ed.

Example Sentences

• "[…] 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."
• "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."
• "Even a place as innocent and unsqualid as the ivied Wesleyan University in Connecticut provokes contempt[…]"