The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sea holly \Sea" hol"ly\ (Bot.) An evergeen seashore plant ( Eryngium maritimum). See Eryngium.
Holly \Hol"ly\ (h[o^]l"l[y^]), n. [OE holi, holin, AS. holen, holegn; akin to D. & G. hulst, OHG. huls hulis, W. celyn, Armor. kelen, Gael. cuilionn, Ir. cuileann. Cf. 1st Holm, Hulver.]
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(Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species ( Ilex Aquifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.
Note: The holly is much used to adorn churches and houses, at Christmas time, and hence is associated with scenes of good will and rejoicing. It is an evergreen tree, and has a finegrained, heavy, white wood. Its bark is used as a febrifuge, and the berries are violently purgative and emetic. The American holly is the Ilex opaca, and is found along the coast of the United States, from Maine southward.
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(Bot.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm.
Holly-leaved oak (Bot.), the black scrub oak. See Scrub oak.
Holly rose (Bot.), a West Indian shrub, with showy, yellow flowers ( Turnera ulmifolia).
Sea holly (Bot.), a species of Eryngium. See Eryngium.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The plant (taxlink Eryngium maritimum species noshow=1). 2 More generally, any of several species of plants in the genus ''Eryngium''.
WordNet
n. European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac [syn: sea holm, sea eryngium, Eryngium maritimum]
widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers [syn: bear's breech, bear's breeches, Acanthus mollis]
Wikipedia
Sea Holly or sea holly may refer to:
- Acanthus ebracteatus
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Eryngium species, especially:
- Eryngium maritimum
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Usage examples of "sea holly".
They crossed the jdth of the island and looked down a far more precipitous Id dunes, anchored with beach grass, sea holly, and sea kale.
Culpepper says: 'The distilled water of the whole herb' (Sea Holly) 'when the leaves and stalks are young is profitably drank for all the purposes aforesaid, and helps the melancholy of the heart, and is available in quartan and quotidian agues.
By the time Ramage had walked and scrambled thirty paces he was five or six feet above sea level, with the rounded tops of the dunes still some twenty feet above him, but it suddenly became steeper and as he climbed upwards his feet kicked aside tufts of sharp-spined sea holly.