Holm

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chiefly British An island in a river.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The holly.
  • n. A common evergreen oak, of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
  • n. Land that is liable to flooding; a river island.
  • n. an islet, sometimes with holly bushes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.
  • n. An islet in a river.
  • n. Low, flat land.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A hill. Layamon. An islet or a river-island; in the Orkneys, a small island off a larger one.
  • n. A river-meadow; a low flat tract of rich land by the side of a river.
  • n. Holly.
  • n. The holm-oak.
  • Word Usage
    "In Portuguese, it was called carrasqueira, in English, holm oak."
    Variant
    ilex    holly   
    Rhyme
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