What is "holmia"

Holmia \Hol"mi*a\, n. [NL.] (Chem.) An oxide of holmium.

n. (context inorganic compound English) The rare earth holmium oxide

Holmia is a genus of a well known group of extinct arthropods, the trilobites, that lived during the Lower Cambrian (Atdabanian) in what are now Scandinavia, Poland and Morocco.

Holmia may refer to:

• the Latin name of Stockholm
• a residential area in the centre of Stockholm, on the island Kungsholmen
• the vernacular name of Holmium(III) oxide
• 378 Holmia, an asteroid
• Holmia (genus), a trilobite belonging to the Olenellina suborder