Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dicotyledonous polypetalous woody vines, climbing by rootlets, belonging to the natural order Araliaceæ and series Hedereæ.
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- noun horticulture Any
Old World ivy of the genusHedera
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- noun Old World woody vines
Etymologies
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Examples
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Similar in its effect was one of the oldest punctuation symbols, a horizontal ivy leaf called a hedera .
Is This the Future of Punctuation Henry Hitchings 2011
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Et laetatus est Ionas super hedera laetitia magna.
Jonah 4 papabear 2008
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Et laetatus est Ionas super hedera laetitia magna.
Archive 2008-09-07 papabear 2008
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Antonius ab assentatoribus evectus Librum se patrem apellari jussit, et pro deo se venditavit redimitus hedera, et corona velatus aurea, et thyrsum tenens, cothurnisque succinctus curru velut Liber pater vectus est Alexandriae.
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[7] 'Poculum ex hedera, cissybium dictum, ratione duplici conviviis summè est accomodum: imprimis, quod hedera vini temulantiam, arcere fertur: deinde quod cauponum fraudes, qui vinum aqua miscent, eo poculo deprehenduntur.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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It is, therefore, with both truth and propriety that the modern floral lexicons give the _vitis hedera_, or Ivy, as expressing 'Female affection -- I have found one true heart.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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'Obvius huic [Tibullo] venias hedera iuvenilia cinctus tempora, cum Calvo, docte Catulle, tuo'; but it is quite certain that the year of his death given by Jerome as
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Vt tenax hedera huc et huc arborem implicat errans.
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Haec genitura divinum lyrici carminis poetam reddit, qui clio - reas Libero, redimitus hedera, religiosi carminis moderatione
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Laeta quod pubes hedera virenti Gaudeat, pulla magis atqiie myrto.
Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793
pantufla commented on the word hedera
Also, a pictogram of an ivy leaf used as a typographic ornament.
June 10, 2009