Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Mediterranean evergreen oak tree (Quercus ilex) having entire or toothed leaves with a dark green upper surface and fine whitish hairs on the lower surface.

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  • noun An evergreen tree, Quercus ilex, native to the Mediterranean region

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  • noun evergreen oak of southern Europe having leaves somewhat resembling those of holly; yields a hard wood
  • noun hard wood of the holm oak tree

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English holm, alteration of holin, holly; see holly.]

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