ˈivy-ˌberry
Also ivenberry.
a. The fruit or seed of the ivy.
| c 1400 Mandeville (1839) xv. 168 It [a tree] is alle grene as it were Ivy Beryes. 1483 Cath. Angl. 199/1 An Iven bery, cornubus. 1530 Palsgr. 235/1 Ivy berry, grayne de hierre. 1634 Milton Comus 55 His clustering locks, With ivy-berries wreathed. 1971 Country Life 25 Mar. 667/3 The woodpigeons..had been on the ivy berries and the clover fields. |
b. U.S. The wintergreen or checkerberry, Gaultheria procumbens.
| 1840 Southern Lit. Messenger VI. 518/2 There were the fringed polygula, the buttercup, wild geranium, bunch⁓plum, ivy-berry. 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-Lore V. 100 Gaultheria procumbens, ivy-berry. |