hollyn.

Brit.

/ˈhɒli/, U.S.

/ˈhɑli/

Forms: Middle English holi, Middle English–1500s holie, Middle English holiȝ, Middle English hoolly, Middle English–1500s holy, 1500s holee, 1600s– holly.

Etymology: Shortened from Old English holegn, holen: see hollin n.

1. 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 glossy leaves, having indented edges set with sharp stiff prickles at the points, and bearing clusters of small green flowers succeeded by bright red berries; much used for decorating houses and churches at Christmas. The American holly, I. opaca, is an evergreen tree similar to this, found in the United States from Massachusetts southward.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > holly bush

hollinc725

hollyc1150

holmc1405

hulverc1430

holm-treec1450

hull1557

ilex1565

evergreen oak1629

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > holly

hollinc725

hollyc1150

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hulverc1430

holm-treec1450

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Christmas1706

wren-bush1901

society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with Christmas > articles associated with

hollyc1150

Christmas lights1597

mince pie1604

Christmas puddingc1650

Christmas present1663

Christmas gift1751

Christmas decoration1818

Christmas tree1826

tree1851

wesley-bob1859

Christmas card1860

bauble1862

Advent calendar1867

c1150 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 545/23 Ulcia, holi.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 191 Ne mid holie [?c1225 Cleo. holine]. ne mid breres. nene biblodge hire sulf.

14.. Songs & Carols 15th C. (Percy Soc.) 84 Here commys holly, that is so gent.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. xxvi He sawe hym sytte vnder a tree of hoolly.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 14^v Peecynge of a shafte with brasell and holie, or other heauy woodes.

1562 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 108 Paid for holy and evy..iiij d.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. vii. 108 There is a kinde of Holly, that is void of these Prickles..and therefore called Free-holly.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iv, in Friend 21 Sept. 95 Some Hollies mark the spot.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxx. 48 With trembling fingers did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth.

2. Applied, with or without defining word, to other plants (mostly shrubs) resembling the common holly; e.g. (in modern dictionaries) to the holm oak, Quercus ilex; in Australia to species of Hakea and Lomatia. Californian holly n. Heteromeles arbutifolia (Cent. Dict.). Cape holly n. Crocoxylon excelsum. ground holly n. Chimaphila umbellata. New Zealand holly n. Olearia ilicifolia ( Treasury Bot. and Miller Plant-n.). See also box holly n. at box n.¹ Compounds 2b, knee-holly n., mountain holly n., sea-holly n.

ΚΠ

1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. iv. 132 Holly..Hakea..Sandy Soil,—produces gum.

Compounds

C1. Of or belonging to the holly.

holly-bark n.

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Birdlime Made from Holly-Bark, boil'd 10 or 12 Hours.

holly-berry n.

ΚΠ

1818 La Belle Assemblée Feb. 85/1 Cambridge hat..edged with holly-berry red.

holly-bough n.

ΚΠ

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 104 Green, slender, leaf-clad Holly-boughs.

holly-branch n.

ΚΠ

1669 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 3) 99 Guard it with a Furs or holy-branch.

holly-bush n.

ΚΠ

1506 in C. Kerry St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 52 It. payed for sysis to the holy bush at Christmas ixd.

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 65 To take a Tauerne and get a Hollibush.

holly-leaf n.

ΚΠ

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 470 The Holly leaues and all the kindes of Holme be set with sharpe prickes.

holly-tree n.

ΚΠ

1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria s.v Rvscvs Angli an holy tre, & an Huluar tre nominant.

1864 Syme Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) II. 222 There are records of Holly trees of great size growing in some of the counties of England.

holly-wood n.

ΚΠ

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 41/2 The Hone is..Hollywood converted into stone.

1864 Syme Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) II. 222 To the turner Holly wood is very valuable.

b. Consisting or made of holly, or its wood.

holly-hedge n.

ΚΠ

1728 J. Thomson Spring 32 Some to the Holly-Hedge Nestling repair.

holly-sprinkled adj.

ΚΠ

1793 W. Wordsworth Evening Walk 10 'Mid clustering isles, and holly-sprinkled steeps.

holly-staff n.

holly-wand n.

ΚΠ

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 30 Let holly wand [1580 holliewand] threat..Let fisgig be beat.

C2.

holly blue n. the azure blue butterfly Celastrina argiolus.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Lycaenidae > genus Celastrina > member of (holly blue)

holly blue1853

1853 F. O. Morris Hist. Brit. Butterflies 136 Holly Blue. Azure Blue... This plain but neat species is to be found..in places where the holly abounds.

1905 Daily Chron. 6 Apr. 3/2 The holly-blue often flies on days when there is more hail than sun.

1927 Daily Express 14 July 5/5 The chalkhill and holly blues would make beauty spots among the yellow iris.

1952 L. H. Newman Transformations of Butterflies & Moths 46 Holly Blue caterpillars vary quite considerably, but the ground colour of the body is always a shade of green.

1970 Times 19 Aug. 9/6 I recently chased a Holly Blue around a holly tree for at least an hour before eventually retiring exhausted, with the total day's bag of one small butterfly.

holly-boy n. an effigy of a boy made of holly, which (together with an ivy-girl) figured in certain village sports in East Kent on Shrove Tuesday.

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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > effigies in Shrove-tide festivities

ivy-girl1736

holly-boy1779

1779 Gentleman's Mag. 49 137 The girls..were assembled in a crowd and burning an uncouth effigy, which they called an Holly Boy, and which it seems they had stolen from the boys.

holly-fern n. Aspidium (or Polystichum) Lonchitis, so named from its stiff prickly fronds.

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the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns

mountain parsley1578

female fern1597

rock parsley1597

spleenwort1597

marsh fern1686

prickly fern1764

parsley fern1777

sensitive fern1780

lady fern1783

stone-brake1796

mountain fern1800

rock brake1802

walking leaf1811

todea1813

shield-fern1814

Woodsia1815

mangemange1817

cinnamon fern1818

climbing fern1818

bladder-fern1828

king fern1829

filmy fern1830

ostrich fern1833

New York fern1843

mokimoki1844

rhizocarp1852

film-fern1855

nardoo1860

gymnogram1861

holly-fern1861

limestone-polypody1861

elk-horn1865

Gleichenia1865

lizard's herb1866

cliff brake1867

kidney fern1867

Christmas fern1873

Prince of Wales feathers1873

Christmas shield fern1878

buckler-fern1882

crape-fern1882

stag-horn1882

ladder fern1884

oleander fern1884

stag fern1884

resam1889

lip-fern1890

coral-fern1898

bamboo fern1930

pteroid1949

fern-gale-

1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 192 Rough Alpine Fern, or Holly Fern.

holly-laurel n. ‘the islay, Prunus ilicifolia, of California’ ( Cent. Dict.).

holly-leaved adj. having leaves resembling those of the holly.

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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular shape or size

broad-leaved1552

long-leaved1562

narrow-leaved1578

round-leaved1597

small-leaved1597

long-leafed1629

rosemary-leaved1633

rue-leaved1633

teretifolious1657

cut-leaved1731

longleaf1733

channel-leaved1758

halberd-shaped1770

alder-leaved1772

oak-leaved1776

holly-leaved1777

ivy-leaved1789

halberd-headed1795

daisy-leaved1796

narrow-leaf1804

oblique-leaved1807

sword-leaved1807

wing-leaved1822

flaggy1842

curly1845

macrophyllous1857

parvifolious1857

shield-leaved1860

curled1861

symphyllous1877

beak-leaved188.

stenophyllous1880

thread-leaved1884

megaphyllous1901

little leaf1908

ivy-leaf1909

1777 J. Cook Voy. S. Pole iv. iii. (R.) The holly-leaved barbary.

holly-leaved olive n. Osmanthus ilicifolius ( Olea ilicifolia) of Japan.

holly-oak n. the holm oak or evergreen oak, Quercus ilex.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > holm-oak

prinec1390

ilexa1398

holm1552

holm-tree1565

mast-holm1577

holly-oak1597

holm oak1597

hulver oak1597

scarlet oak1597

oak-holm1601

evergreen oak1629

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1159 Holme Oke, Huluer Oke, or Holly Oke.

holly-rose n. †(a) (an old name for) some species of Cistus; (b) (a name for) Turnera ulmifolia, a West Indian shrub with yellow flowers.

ΚΠ

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1092 Of Hollie Roses, or Cistus.

1700 tr. A. Cowley 6 Bks. Plants iv. 90 in 2nd & 3rd Pts. Wks. (new ed.) Why Holly-Rose, dost thou, of slender frame, And without scent, assume a Rose's Name?

holly-set adj. and n. (a) adj. set with holly; (b) n. a hedge made of holly (cf. quickset n.¹).

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a hedge > hedges of specific material

spinneyc1400

holly-set1664

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1812) I. xxi. 274 Let every fifth or sixth be a Holly-set; they will grow up infallibly with your Quick.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	holly
释义	hollyn. Brit. /ˈhɒli/, U.S. /ˈhɑli/ Forms: Middle English holi, Middle English–1500s holie, Middle English holiȝ, Middle English hoolly, Middle English–1500s holy, 1500s holee, 1600s– holly. Etymology: Shortened from Old English holegn, holen: see hollin n. 1. 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 glossy leaves, having indented edges set with sharp stiff prickles at the points, and bearing clusters of small green flowers succeeded by bright red berries; much used for decorating houses and churches at Christmas. The American holly, I. opaca, is an evergreen tree similar to this, found in the United States from Massachusetts southward. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > holly bush hollinc725 hollyc1150 holmc1405 hulverc1430 holm-treec1450 hull1557 ilex1565 evergreen oak1629 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > holly hollinc725 hollyc1150 holmc1405 hulverc1430 holm-treec1450 hull1557 Christmas1706 wren-bush1901 society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with Christmas > articles associated with hollyc1150 Christmas lights1597 mince pie1604 Christmas puddingc1650 Christmas present1663 Christmas gift1751 Christmas decoration1818 Christmas tree1826 tree1851 wesley-bob1859 Christmas card1860 bauble1862 Advent calendar1867 c1150 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 545/23 Ulcia, holi. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 191 Ne mid holie [?c1225 Cleo. holine]. ne mid breres. nene biblodge hire sulf. 14.. Songs & Carols 15th C. (Percy Soc.) 84 Here commys holly, that is so gent. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. xxvi He sawe hym sytte vnder a tree of hoolly. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 14^v Peecynge of a shafte with brasell and holie, or other heauy woodes. 1562 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 108 Paid for holy and evy..iiij d. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. vii. 108 There is a kinde of Holly, that is void of these Prickles..and therefore called Free-holly. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iv, in Friend 21 Sept. 95 Some Hollies mark the spot. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxx. 48 With trembling fingers did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth. View more context for this quotation 2. Applied, with or without defining word, to other plants (mostly shrubs) resembling the common holly; e.g. (in modern dictionaries) to the holm oak, Quercus ilex; in Australia to species of Hakea and Lomatia. Californian holly n. Heteromeles arbutifolia (Cent. Dict.). Cape holly n. Crocoxylon excelsum. ground holly n. Chimaphila umbellata. New Zealand holly n. Olearia ilicifolia ( Treasury Bot. and Miller Plant-n.). See also box holly n. at box n.¹ Compounds 2b, knee-holly n., mountain holly n., sea-holly n. ΚΠ 1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. iv. 132 Holly..Hakea..Sandy Soil,—produces gum. Compounds C1. Of or belonging to the holly. a. holly-bark n. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Birdlime Made from Holly-Bark, boil'd 10 or 12 Hours. holly-berry n. ΚΠ 1818 La Belle Assemblée Feb. 85/1 Cambridge hat..edged with holly-berry red. holly-bough n. ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 104 Green, slender, leaf-clad Holly-boughs. holly-branch n. ΚΠ 1669 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 3) 99 Guard it with a Furs or holy-branch. holly-bush n. ΚΠ 1506 in C. Kerry St. Lawrence, Reading (1883) 52 It. payed for sysis to the holy bush at Christmas ixd. 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 65 To take a Tauerne and get a Hollibush. holly-leaf n. ΚΠ 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 470 The Holly leaues and all the kindes of Holme be set with sharpe prickes. holly-tree n. ΚΠ 1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria s.v Rvscvs Angli an holy tre, & an Huluar tre nominant. 1864 Syme Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) II. 222 There are records of Holly trees of great size growing in some of the counties of England. holly-wood n. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 41/2 The Hone is..Hollywood converted into stone. 1864 Syme Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) II. 222 To the turner Holly wood is very valuable. b. Consisting or made of holly, or its wood. holly-hedge n. ΚΠ 1728 J. Thomson Spring 32 Some to the Holly-Hedge Nestling repair. holly-sprinkled adj. ΚΠ 1793 W. Wordsworth Evening Walk 10 'Mid clustering isles, and holly-sprinkled steeps. holly-staff n. holly-wand n. ΚΠ 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 30 Let holly wand [1580 holliewand] threat..Let fisgig be beat. C2. holly blue n. the azure blue butterfly Celastrina argiolus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Lycaenidae > genus Celastrina > member of (holly blue) holly blue1853 1853 F. O. Morris Hist. Brit. Butterflies 136 Holly Blue. Azure Blue... This plain but neat species is to be found..in places where the holly abounds. 1905 Daily Chron. 6 Apr. 3/2 The holly-blue often flies on days when there is more hail than sun. 1927 Daily Express 14 July 5/5 The chalkhill and holly blues would make beauty spots among the yellow iris. 1952 L. H. Newman Transformations of Butterflies & Moths 46 Holly Blue caterpillars vary quite considerably, but the ground colour of the body is always a shade of green. 1970 Times 19 Aug. 9/6 I recently chased a Holly Blue around a holly tree for at least an hour before eventually retiring exhausted, with the total day's bag of one small butterfly. holly-boy n. an effigy of a boy made of holly, which (together with an ivy-girl) figured in certain village sports in East Kent on Shrove Tuesday. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > persons and characters > [noun] > effigies in Shrove-tide festivities ivy-girl1736 holly-boy1779 1779 Gentleman's Mag. 49 137 The girls..were assembled in a crowd and burning an uncouth effigy, which they called an Holly Boy, and which it seems they had stolen from the boys. holly-fern n. Aspidium (or Polystichum) Lonchitis, so named from its stiff prickly fronds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns mountain parsley1578 female fern1597 rock parsley1597 spleenwort1597 marsh fern1686 prickly fern1764 parsley fern1777 sensitive fern1780 lady fern1783 stone-brake1796 mountain fern1800 rock brake1802 walking leaf1811 todea1813 shield-fern1814 Woodsia1815 mangemange1817 cinnamon fern1818 climbing fern1818 bladder-fern1828 king fern1829 filmy fern1830 ostrich fern1833 New York fern1843 mokimoki1844 rhizocarp1852 film-fern1855 nardoo1860 gymnogram1861 holly-fern1861 limestone-polypody1861 elk-horn1865 Gleichenia1865 lizard's herb1866 cliff brake1867 kidney fern1867 Christmas fern1873 Prince of Wales feathers1873 Christmas shield fern1878 buckler-fern1882 crape-fern1882 stag-horn1882 ladder fern1884 oleander fern1884 stag fern1884 resam1889 lip-fern1890 coral-fern1898 bamboo fern1930 pteroid1949 fern-gale- 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 192 Rough Alpine Fern, or Holly Fern. holly-laurel n. ‘the islay, Prunus ilicifolia, of California’ ( Cent. Dict.). holly-leaved adj. having leaves resembling those of the holly. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having leaves of particular shape or size broad-leaved1552 long-leaved1562 narrow-leaved1578 round-leaved1597 small-leaved1597 long-leafed1629 rosemary-leaved1633 rue-leaved1633 teretifolious1657 cut-leaved1731 longleaf1733 channel-leaved1758 halberd-shaped1770 alder-leaved1772 oak-leaved1776 holly-leaved1777 ivy-leaved1789 halberd-headed1795 daisy-leaved1796 narrow-leaf1804 oblique-leaved1807 sword-leaved1807 wing-leaved1822 flaggy1842 curly1845 macrophyllous1857 parvifolious1857 shield-leaved1860 curled1861 symphyllous1877 beak-leaved188. stenophyllous1880 thread-leaved1884 megaphyllous1901 little leaf1908 ivy-leaf1909 1777 J. Cook Voy. S. Pole iv. iii. (R.) The holly-leaved barbary. holly-leaved olive n. Osmanthus ilicifolius ( Olea ilicifolia) of Japan. holly-oak n. the holm oak or evergreen oak, Quercus ilex. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > holm-oak prinec1390 ilexa1398 holm1552 holm-tree1565 mast-holm1577 holly-oak1597 holm oak1597 hulver oak1597 scarlet oak1597 oak-holm1601 evergreen oak1629 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1159 Holme Oke, Huluer Oke, or Holly Oke. holly-rose n. †(a) (an old name for) some species of Cistus; (b) (a name for) Turnera ulmifolia, a West Indian shrub with yellow flowers. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1092 Of Hollie Roses, or Cistus. 1700 tr. A. Cowley 6 Bks. Plants iv. 90 in 2nd & 3rd Pts. Wks. (new ed.) Why Holly-Rose, dost thou, of slender frame, And without scent, assume a Rose's Name? holly-set adj. and n. (a) adj. set with holly; (b) n. a hedge made of holly (cf. quickset n.¹). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a hedge > hedges of specific material spinneyc1400 holly-set1664 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1812) I. xxi. 274 Let every fifth or sixth be a Holly-set; they will grow up infallibly with your Quick. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1150
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