Ivy (disambiguation)

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Ivy without qualifiers usually means plants in the genus Hedera in the family Araliaceae. It may also refer to:

Plants

• The plant growth form "vine" or "liana."
• Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidatus, in the grape family Vitaceae
• Ground ivy, one of the species of the mint genus Glechoma
• Poison ivy, a plant in the genus Toxicodendron in the family Anacardiaceae
• Swedish ivy, a plant species in the genus Plectranthus

Places

• Ivy, California, a former town in Modoc County
• Ivy, Missouri, an unincorporated community

People

For a list of people with the given name Ivy, see Ivy (name).

• Ivy (singer), a singer from Korea
• Blue Ivy Carter
• Andrew Conway Ivy (1893-1978), American doctor
• Bill Ivy (1942-1969), British motorcycle racer
• Bob Ivy, stunt performer
• Corey Ivy (born 1977), American football player
• Gregory Ivy (1904-1985), American art professor
• Hardy Ivy (1779-1842), American settler
• Khori Ivy (born 1978), American football player
• Mortty Ivy (born 1985), American football player
• Pop Ivy (1916-2003), American football player and coach

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

• Ivy (1947 film), a 1947 film starring Joan Fontaine
• Ivy (2015 film), a 2015 Turkish film

Music

Groups

• Ivy (band), a trio of musicians from New York City
• Operation Ivy (band), a punk band

Songs

• "Ivy", a song written for the 1947 film by Hoagy Carmichael

Other art, entertainment, and media

• Ivy, a book series by Julie Hearn, published by Oxford University Press
• Ivy Valentine, (aka Isabella "Ivy" Valentine), a fictional character from the Soul series of fighting games

Brands and enterprises

• Ivy (motorcycles), a motorcycle manufacturer
• The Ivy, a restaurant in London, England

Computing

• Apache Ivy, a transitive dependency manager for Java, or other applications that require management artifact dependencies.
• Ivy, a decentralized peer-to-peer file system
• Ivy, an embeddable scripting language
• IVY, a web application framework for PHP

Education

• Ivy League, an association of prestigious American universities
• "The Jesuit Ivy", a nickname for Boston College, Massachusetts

Nuclear science

• Ivy Mike, the code name given to the first test of a successful fusion device, detonated on October 31, 1952
• Operation Ivy, a pair of nuclear tests in 1952

Other uses

• MV Ivy, a Panamanian coaster

See also

• Ivey (disambiguation)
• Ivie (disambiguation)
• Poison ivy (disambiguation)