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sea holly

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sea holly
n.
A European seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum) having prickly, fleshy, bluish leaves and heads of blue or purplish flowers.
sea holly
n
(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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Noun1.sea hollysea 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 hollysea 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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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.
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