ivy-covered
1: overgrown with ivy; "Harvard's ivied buildings" [syn: {ivied}]
ivy-leaved geranium
1: a commonly cultivated trailing South American plant with peltate leaves and rosy flowers [syn: {ivy geranium}, {hanging geranium}, {Pelargonium peltatum}]
IW
1: the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries; "not everyone agrees that in...
Iwo
1: a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945) [syn: {Iwo Jima}, {invasion of Iwo}]
Iwo Jima
1: the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan 2: a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945) ...
IWW
1: a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War ...
ix
1: denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten [syn: {nine}, {9}] n : the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one [syn: {nine}, {9}, {niner}, {Nina from Caroli...
ixc
1: being nine more than eighty [syn: {eighty-nine}, {89}]
Ixia
1: a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae [syn: {genus Ixia}]
ixl
1: being nine more than thirty [syn: {thirty-nine}, {39}]
Ixodes
1: type genus of the family Ixodidae [syn: {genus Ixodes}]
Ixodes dammini
1: a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis [syn: {deer tick}]
Ixodes dentatus
1: usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats
Ixodes neotomae
1: a tick that usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to dusky-footed wood rats
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Ixodes pacificus
1: feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California [syn: {western black-legged tick}]
Ixodes ricinus
1: parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete [syn: {sheep-tick}, {sheep tick}...
Ixodes scapularis
1: parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (de...
Ixodes spinipalpis
1: usually does not bite humans; transmits Lyme disease spirochete to cottontail rabbits and wood rats
ixodid
1: ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head [syn: {hard tick}]
Ixodidae
1: hard ticks [syn: {family Ixodidae}]
Iyar
1: the eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May) [syn: {Iyyar}]
Iyyar
1: the eighth month of the civil year; the second month of the ecclesiastical year (in April and May) [syn: {Iyar}]
Iz Al-Din Al-Qassam Battalions
1: the military arm of Hamas responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks on Israel [syn: {Qassam Brigades}, {Salah al-Din Battalions}]
Izaak Walton
1: English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683) [syn: {Walton}]
Izanagi
1: the god who fathered the islands and gods of Japan with his sister Izanami
Izanami
1: sister and consort of Izanami; mother of the islands and gods of Japan
izar
1: a voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East; covers the entire body
Izmir
1: a port city in western Turkey [syn: {Smyrna}]
izzard
1: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: {Z}, {zee}, {zed}, {ezed}]
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