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Blolly

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Blol´ly
n.1.(Bot.) A shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies (Pisonia obtusata) with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit.
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Noun1.blolly - evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries
Chiococca alba, West Indian snowberry
Chiococca, genus Chiococca - shrubs of tropical and subtropical New World
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems


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Blolly, to answer your question, is short for loblolly, an old British and nautical term for the "thick gruel" that came to Americans' minds when they saw the mud holes and swampy depressions where blolly (and loblolly pine) grows.
Land of the little giants: Wild-dillys. Blollys. And champion trees ... by Bronaugh, Whit / American Forests
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