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false holly

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English

Syllables
false hol-ly
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A flowering shrub or tree of species Osmanthus heterophyllus, in the olive family, native to East Asia.

Uncountable

Etymology

From the superficial similarity of its leaves to true holly trees of the genus Ilex.

Usage

Inflected Forms

false hollies (plural)

Synonyms

holly olive holly osmanthus

Questions

What does false holly mean?
A flowering shrub or tree of species Osmanthus heterophyllus, in the olive family, native to East Asia.
Where does false holly come from?
From the superficial similarity of its leaves to true holly trees of the genus Ilex.

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