Dictionary Entry

holly

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈhɒli/Used In Literature ↓

Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.

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Common Phrases

. hollysprings hollysaid hollytree hollyholly buddyholly mount

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Poetry examples for “holly”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And a robin sings
In the holly-bush.

Took down the evergreens; and how
The holly into blazes woke
The fire, lighting the large, low room,

Leave me those hills were harbrough n'is to see,
Nor holly-bush, nor briar, nor winding ditch;
And to the dales resort, where shepheards rich,

The smooth white empty road was lightly strewn
With leaves--the holly's Autumn falls in June--
And fir cones standing stiff up in the heat.

The milk-white girls
Unbend from the holly-trees,
And their snow-white leopard

I come, the last of all. This crown of mine
Is of the holly; in my hand I bear
The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine.

Montclair
Mount Holly
Neptune

lika Pagan
Holly Hall
Kevin Jay

Abrahamzon Karl V r 7300 Holly. . TR inidad 2-4303
Abrahm Mary Lou 1520-1stAv GLrert 2-0509

The holly bush, a sober lump of green,
Shines through the leafless shrubs all brown and grey,