sea holly

A European seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum) having prickly, fleshy, bluish leaves and heads of blue or purplish flowers.

sea holly

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a European umbelliferous plant, Eryngium maritimum, of sandy shores, having spiny bluish-green stems and blue flowers

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Noun	1.	sea holly - European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac Eryngium maritimum, sea eryngium, sea holm Eryngium, genus Eryngium - large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	2.	sea holly - widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers Acanthus mollis, bear's breech, bear's breeches acanthus - any plant of the genus Acanthus having large spiny leaves and spikes or white or purplish flowers; native to Mediterranean region but widely cultivated

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acanthus Acanthus mollis bear's breech bear's breeches eryngium Eryngium maritimum eryngo genus Eryngium Holly sea eryngium Sea holm Sea hulver	The other two officers were not dead or mortally wounded, but Macbride lay with a broken leg and his ladder on top of him, evidently thrown down from the top window of the tower; while Wilson lay on his face, quite still as if stunned, with his red head among the gray and silver of the sea holly. The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context	Sea froth Sea gauge Sea gherkin Sea gillyflower Sea ginger Sea girdle Sea girdles Sea god Sea goddess Sea goose sea gooseberry Sea gown sea grant college sea grape Sea grass sea green Sea gudgeon Sea gull sea hare Sea hawk sea heath Sea hedgehog Sea hen sea hibiscus sea hog sea holly Sea holm sea horse Sea hulver Sea Island cotton Sea Islands Sea jelly sea kale sea king sea lace Sea laces sea ladder sea lamprey sea lane Sea language Sea lark sea lavender sea lawyer sea legs Sea lemon Sea leopard sea letter sea lettuce sea level sea lily sea lion	sea grape sea grape sea grapes sea grapes Sea grass Sea grass sea green Sea gudgeon sea gull sea gull sea gull sea gull sea gull tracing sea gull tracing sea gull tracing sea gully sea hare sea hare Sea hares Sea hares Sea Harrier Sea hawk Sea heath sea heaths Sea hedgehog Sea hedgehog Sea Hen sea hibiscus sea hog sea hollies sea holly sea holm sea horse sea horse sea horse sea horse sea horses sea horses Sea hulver Sea ice Sea ice Sea Ice Concentration Sea Ice Knowledge and Use Sea Ice Mass Budget of the Arctic Workshop Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment Sea Ice Research Laboratory Sea Ice-Ocean Modeling SEA ICRN sea island cotton Sea Islands Sea Islands Sea Islands Black Heritage Festival Sea Isle City Sea Isle City Beach Patrol Sea Isle City Taxpayers Association Sea jellies Sea jellies Sea jellies Sea jelly

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acanthus
Acanthus mollis
bear's breech
bear's breeches
eryngium
Eryngium maritimum
eryngo
genus Eryngium
Holly
sea eryngium
Sea holm
Sea hulver

The other two officers were not dead or mortally wounded, but Macbride lay with a broken leg and his ladder on top of him, evidently thrown down from the top window of the tower; while Wilson lay on his face, quite still as if stunned, with his red head among the gray and silver of the sea holly.

The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context