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   Holly
   (Ilex) This group consists of about 400 evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs as well as numerous hybrids and cultivars. These attractive plants are commonly known as Holly. Hollies range from compact dwarfs to large trees that can reach a height of up to 50 feet. Hollies are valued for their beautiful leaves, which may be glossy green, gold, bluish-green or reddish-purple and are sometimes variegated or edged with cream, yellow, or silvery white. Some leaves are usually prickly while others ...
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   Holly
   Holly (Ilex) is a genus of plants of the order Aquifoliaceae, embracing a number of evergreen trees or shrubs. The common holly is a conical evergreen tree growing to a height of 10 meters in Britain. It's leaves are dark-green, shiny and leathery, abundantly armed with prickles on the lower branches but free from them on the higher branches.
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   Holly
   Holly is a town in Prowers County Colorado, USA Holly is a township in Murray County Minnesota, USA Holly is a village in Oakland County Michigan, USA Holly is a township in Oakland County Michigan, USA
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   Holly
   [n] - any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges 2. [n] - United States rock star (1936-1959)
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   holly
   Hard, white wood with a close grain and fine texture, often stained a different colour. Holly was used for small pieces of inlaid decoration in solid oak and walnut in the 16th and early 17th centuries and for marquetry from the late 17th to late 18th centuries.
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   Holly
   Hol'ly adverb Wholly. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
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   Holly
   Hol'ly (hŏl'lȳ) noun [ OE holi , holin , Anglo-Saxon holen , holegn ; akin to D. & German hulst , Old High German huls hulis , W. celyn , Armor. kelen , Gael. cuilionn , Ir. cuileann . Confer 1st Holm , Hulver .] 1. (Botany) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex . The European ...
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   holly
   1. <botany> A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas. ... The holly is much used to adorn churches and houses, at Christmas time, and hence is associated with scenes of good will and ...
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   Holly
   `Holly` (`Ilex`) is a genus of about 600 species of flowering plants in the family `Aquifoliaceae`, and the only living genus in that family. One other genus, the monotypic `Nemopanthus` (Mountain Holly), was formerly separated from `Ilex` on the basis that its flowers have a reduced calyx and narrow petals, and also in cytology, being tetraploid, whereas `Ilex` is diploid. However, following analysis of molecular data, Mountain Holly has now bee...
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    Holly
    • (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas. • (adv.) Wholly. • (n.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm.
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    holly
    any of the shrubs and trees of the genus Ilex, in the family Aquifoliaceae, comprising about 400 species of red- or black-berried plants, including ...
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    Holly
    Holly is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Plant With Red Berries` Where is it used? The name Holly is mainly used In English.How do they say it elsewhere? Hollie ( In English) From Old English. Holly appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 339. The name reached the top-100 4 times. 1980 was a `top year` for the name Holly. (Ba
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    holly
    holly, common name for members of the Aquifoliaceae, a family of widely distributed trees and shrubs, most numerous in Central and South America. The evergreen English holly (Ilex aquifolium), the common holly of Europe, cultivated also in North America, is closely associated with Christmas traditio...
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