= holly, n. (Still current in Scotland.)

A plant of the genus Ilex; (originally and esp.) the common European holly, I. Aquifolium, an evergreen shrub or small tree with dark-green tough…

The common holly. Obsolete exc. dialect.

Holly. knee hulver, Butcher's Broom, Ruscus aculeatus. sea hulver, Sea Holly, Eryngo.

The holly; = holm, n.1 1. Obsolete exc. dialect.

Holly.

In modern Botany, the name of a genus of Aquifoliaceæ, comprising numerous trees and shrubs, of which the most familiar is the common holly (I. Aquif…

any of various oaks having evergreen foliage (see sense A. 1b), esp. the holm oak, Quercus ilex.