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Definition of "ground ivy" []

  • A creeping or trailing European aromatic plant (Glechoma hederacea), widely naturalized in North America and having rounded scalloped leaves and small purplish flowers. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "ground ivy" in a sentence
  • "The bowels should be kept open by the use of castor oil, senna or rhubarb, and from half to a whole tea-spoonful of sulpher should be taken in sage or ground ivy tea The only danger in this disease is in driving it in, when it is driven in by cold, it produces great restlessness and misery and not unfrequently convulsions."
  • "The bower is floored in lords and ladies, ground ivy and mosses, and its eight trunks cross-gartered with wild hops, our English vines."