WordNet
desert holly
n. handsome low saltbush of arid southwestern United States and Mexico having blue-green prickly-edged leaves often used for Christmas decoration [syn: Atriplex hymenelytra]
Usage examples of "desert holly".
There were small, spiky yellow shrubs that looked like the desert holly and honeysweet and spurge that had once clung to life in the Californian deserts of North America.
He was lying on his right side, his legs partially under a tangled thicket of silvery desert holly-the cushion which had absorbed his fall and undoubtedly saved him from fractured bones.