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a patient assassin that climbs your wall like rent, then keeps the bricks
means a climbing or trailing evergreen plant that clings to walls, trees, and fences with rootlets, often grown for ornament or coverage.
from From Old English "ifig," with cousins across the old Germanic tongues — Old High German "ebah" and the like — though the deeper root is murky, lost somewhere before the written record. It has crept through English largely unchanged for over a thousand years, fittingly persistent for a plant that does the same to brickwork.
- climbing tech
- Tiny rootlets secrete glue strong enough to dent stone
- evergreen
- Stays green all winter, mocking every bare tree
- late bloomer
- Flowers in autumn, feeding bees when nothing else does
- league name
- Ivy League comes from old vines on campus walls
- toxic touch
- Poison ivy isn't true ivy, just a vengeful imposter
ivy league — 8 universities in northeastern us founded before 1900, including harvard and yale
poison ivy — plant species toxicodendron radicans native to north america causing urushiol allergic reactions
ivy city — neighborhood in washington dc known for arts venues and the dc brewery