hederal

English

Etymology

From hedera or Hedera (“genus name”), from Latin.

Adjective

hederal (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or composed of ivy.
    • a. 1878, Godey's Magazine, Volume 116, page 368,
      Unsightly places may be hidden from view by hederal screens, […] .
    • 1884, Charles Wilkins, editor, The Red Dragon, the national magazine of Wales, volume 5, page 502:
      […] he cannot, with justice, however unequal the product, be accused, at least, of plagiarism, the absence of which, he ventures to submit, is in these days as distinctive a merit as was the hederal coronet of the Olympic festival to him whose temple it adorned.
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