holly family

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holly family - widely distributed shrubs and treesAquifoliaceae, family Aquifoliaceaedicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationorder Sapindales, Sapindales - an order of dicotyledonous plantsgenus Ilex, Ilex - a large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies)