Holly
noun
A type of evergreen plant with prickly dark green leaves and bright red berries.
He decorated his home with holly for Christmas.
Often appears as...
- holly tree
- holly leaf
noun
A type of evergreen plant with prickly dark green leaves and bright red berries.
He decorated his home with holly for Christmas.
Often appears as...
- holly tree
- holly leaf
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Pro Tip 1/3Holiday Symbol
Holly is especially associated with Christmas; it symbolizes festivity and decoration during the winter holidays.
They hung a wreath of holly on the front door for the festive season.
Pro Tip 2/3Distinctive Features
To identify holly, look for its spiky leaves and bright red berries, commonly depicted in holiday imagery.
The Christmas cards featured a holly motif with its distinctive spiky leaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Usage
Holly can be used metaphorically to represent eternal life or protection due to its evergreen nature.
Their undying friendship was like the holly, evergreen and enduring.
Pro Tip 1/3Holiday Symbol
Holly is especially associated with Christmas; it symbolizes festivity and decoration during the winter holidays.
They hung a wreath of holly on the front door for the festive season.
Pro Tip 2/3Distinctive Features
To identify holly, look for its spiky leaves and bright red berries, commonly depicted in holiday imagery.
The Christmas cards featured a holly motif with its distinctive spiky leaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Usage
Holly can be used metaphorically to represent eternal life or protection due to its evergreen nature.
Their undying friendship was like the holly, evergreen and enduring.
Pro Tip 1/3Holiday Symbol
Holly is especially associated with Christmas; it symbolizes festivity and decoration during the winter holidays.
They hung a wreath of holly on the front door for the festive season.
Pro Tip 2/3Distinctive Features
To identify holly, look for its spiky leaves and bright red berries, commonly depicted in holiday imagery.
The Christmas cards featured a holly motif with its distinctive spiky leaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Usage
Holly can be used metaphorically to represent eternal life or protection due to its evergreen nature.
Their undying friendship was like the holly, evergreen and enduring.
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Dean Kamen: Rolling...
because it's external combustion -- as your kitchen stove, if you can burn any fuel, it turns out to be pretty neat. It makes just enough electricity to, for instance, do this, which at night is enough electricity, in the rest of the world, as Mr. Holly -- Dr. Holly -- pointed out,
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Safari Live - Day 316 PIPE...
with each other it's all about touching smelling and biting in the eye in a world and well as we go on from this den site it seems that holly has found an animal that likes to
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Dean Kamen: Rolling...
because it's external combustion -- as your kitchen stove, if you can burn any fuel, it turns out to be pretty neat. It makes just enough electricity to, for instance, do this, which at night is enough electricity, in the rest of the world, as Mr. Holly -- Dr. Holly -- pointed out,
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Safari Live - Day 316 PIPE...
with each other it's all about touching smelling and biting in the eye in a world and well as we go on from this den site it seems that holly has found an animal that likes to
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Monty Don
English Celebrity
I think that the essence of a Christmas wreath - of all Christmas vegetative decoration - has to be green and, if possible, living. So the basis of a wreath is ideally holly, laurel, ivy, rosemary, larch, fir or whatever is to hand.
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Brendan Schaub
American Comedian
Holly Holm - before she fought Ronda, the fights were never that great. It was like, 'Yeah, she's screwed against Ronda!' Well, what they were doing is they were kind of playing opossum, just waiting for the big shot.
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Dan Levy
American Comedian
I remember, before I started high school, I was really intrigued by the Buddy Holly/James Dean style of glasses. This was a long, long time before they were sold at every Urban Outfitters.
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Amanda Nunes
Brazilian Athlete
We both are the only women that beat Ronda Rousey. There's a history involved. Holly and I always were the underdog in our fights, so there's a history.
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Emily Bronte
English Novelist
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Hope Jahren
American Scientist
In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor, the holly bush.
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Frederica Mathewes-Green
Author
Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
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Bridget Marquardt
Holly and Hef were obviously the main relationship. We weren't allowed to date or anything like that.
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Robbie Lawler
American Athlete
Holly Holm is a heck of an athlete and a heck of a fighter.
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Patricia Clarkson
American Actress
Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
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Monty Don
English Celebrity
I think that the essence of a Christmas wreath - of all Christmas vegetative decoration - has to be green and, if possible, living. So the basis of a wreath is ideally holly, laurel, ivy, rosemary, larch, fir or whatever is to hand.
Quote examples
Brendan Schaub
American Comedian
Holly Holm - before she fought Ronda, the fights were never that great. It was like, 'Yeah, she's screwed against Ronda!' Well, what they were doing is they were kind of playing opossum, just waiting for the big shot.
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Dan Levy
American Comedian
I remember, before I started high school, I was really intrigued by the Buddy Holly/James Dean style of glasses. This was a long, long time before they were sold at every Urban Outfitters.
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Amanda Nunes
Brazilian Athlete
We both are the only women that beat Ronda Rousey. There's a history involved. Holly and I always were the underdog in our fights, so there's a history.
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Emily Bronte
English Novelist
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Quote examples
Hope Jahren
American Scientist
In New England, the pin oak thrives, its leaves tipping to a thorny point in a good-natured impression of its evergreen neighbor, the holly bush.
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Frederica Mathewes-Green
Author
Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
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Bridget Marquardt
Holly and Hef were obviously the main relationship. We weren't allowed to date or anything like that.
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Robbie Lawler
American Athlete
Holly Holm is a heck of an athlete and a heck of a fighter.
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Patricia Clarkson
American Actress
Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
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