ground ivy

Questions about ground ivy

What does ground ivy mean?

ground ivy means "trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta".

What is another word for ground ivy?

Close synonyms include alehoof, field balm, gill-over-the-ground, runaway robin, Glechoma hederaceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ground ivy a common word?

ground ivy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.