ivy-covered
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- adjective
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cubierto de hiedra
- Fifteen of them stand before the ivy-covered walls and leaded-glass windows.
- ivy-covered wall
- ivy-covered building
- ivy-covered facade
Examples
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Afton Arms, a gorgeous, ivy-covered, castle-like building on the corner of El Centro and Afton Place, has many.
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Once, we found his motorcycle leaning against an ivy-covered wall on Summit Drive.
Fiction book (1999) -
The gray old ivy-covered town library.
Fiction book (2000) -
We see an ivy-covered brick building there, with a sign that is too far away for us to read.
Fiction book (2001) -
But the defenders of the ivy-covered walls have never been more nervous.
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Clara looked across the green lawn at a fountain set into an ivy-covered wall, water gushing from a lion's mouth.
Fiction book (1996) -
Although the ivy-covered exterior of the Last Laugh Foundation led one to expect brown leather furniture, worn but expensive Oriental rugs.
Fiction book (1990) -
Ai Weiwei's studio compound sits behind high, ivy-covered gray brick walls on an isolated street in Beijing's shabby northeast outskirts.
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The old house at the end of the street has an ivy-covered facade that makes it look charming.
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They admired the ivy-covered walls of the historic building as they strolled through the garden.
Synonyms
Covered in ivy
How Overgrown
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Morphology
Etymology
Ivy-covered combines the plant name ivy and the word covered, which means 'having something over it'. It paints a simple picture: an ivy-covered wall is like a wall wearing a green 'coat' of leaves, so you know the surface is grown over with ivy.