Vocabulary : Ivied to Ixia
Ivied : Overgrown with ivy.
Ivies : of Ivy
Ivoride : A composition resembling ivory in appearance and used as a substitute for it.
Ivories : of Ivory
Ivory : The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility. ;; The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc. ;; Any carving executed in ivory. ;; Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
Ivory-bill : A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.
Ivorytype : A picture produced by superposing a very light print, rendered translucent by varnish, and tinted upon the back, upon a stronger print, so as to give the effect of a photograph in natural colors; -- called also hellenotype.
Ivy : 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.
Ivy-mantled : Covered with ivy.
Ixia : A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers.
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