0 a type of climbing evergreen plant with small shiny leaves that grows up trees and walls. -- efeu; vedbend
In my constituency, one farmer's ewes were eating ivy and so produced many dead lambs.
I have been trying to encourage the owners to grow some ivy on it in order to improve the appearance.
A tree surgeon has provided advice on clearance of ivy and other vegetation that covers the castle.
Architects and civil engineers can only grow ivy in front of theirs, and hope that they disappear one day.
It looks as though some of our people are in the position of the ivy clinging to a tree.
To tear up old ties is very painful indeed, but sometimes old ties are like the ivy, which destroys the building that it covers.
I hope that it will not be the sort of memorial that becomes completely obscured with ivy—the fate of many memorials.
There are parts of the countryside where every second or third tree is covered with ivy.
