Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The evergreen oak, Quercus Ilex. Also called
holly-oak .
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Examples
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Winding our way up the mountain roads, we caught the occasional glimpse of a Barbary ape going about its business among the cedar and holm-oak forests.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Winding our way up the mountain roads, we caught the occasional glimpse of a Barbary ape going about its business among the cedar and holm-oak forests.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Winding our way up the mountain roads, we caught the occasional glimpse of a Barbary ape going about its business among the cedar and holm-oak forests.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Winding our way up the mountain roads, we caught the occasional glimpse of a Barbary ape going about its business among the cedar and holm-oak forests.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Poles of laurel or elm are most free from worms, and a share-beam of oak and a plough-tree of holm-oak.
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And just then she saw me looking, and hid behind a holm-oak tree; but I could still see the gleam of one shoulder and her long narrow eyes pursuing me.
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He would not rest on the ground so near the evil road, and after some debate they all climbed up into the crotch of a large holm-oak, whose thick branches springing together from the trunk made a good hiding-place and a fairly comfortable refuge.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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Hew also many bent timbers, and bring home a plough-tree when you have found it, and look out on the mountain or in the field for one of holm-oak; for this is the strongest for oxen to plough with when one of Athena's handmen has fixed in the share-beam and fastened it to the pole with dowels.
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Poles of laurel or elm are most free from worms, and a share-beam of oak and a plough-tree of holm-oak.
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The holm-oak grows to a surprising bulk and height in this country; I have seen of them a foot and a half diameter, and about 30 feet from the ground to the lowest branches.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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