different between holly vs winterberry

English

Etymology

From Middle English holly, holi, holie, a shortened variation of holin, holyn (> English dialectal hollen, holm), from Old English hole?n, holen (“holly; prince, protector”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulis (“holly”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *?el- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?li/
• Rhymes: -?li
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?li/

Noun

holly (countable and uncountable, plural hollies)

1. Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.
2. The wood from this tree.
3. (with a qualifier) Any of several unrelated plant species likened to Ilex because of their prickly, evergreen foliage and/or round, bright-red berries

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

holly

1. Alternative form of holy (sacred)

Etymology 2

Adjective

holly

1. Alternative form of holy (porous)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English holly.

Adjective

holly

1. holy

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

winter +? berry; from the berries' persistence throughout the winter.

Noun

winterberry (plural winterberries)

1. A species of holly native to the United States and Canada and producing red berries, Ilex verticillata.
2. The fruit of this plant.

Synonyms

• (plant): American winterberry, black alder, black alder winterberry, brook alder, coralberry, deciduous holly, deciduous winterberry, false alder, fever bush, inkberry, Michigan holly, possumhaw, striped alder, swamp holly, Virginian winterberry, white alder, winterberry holly

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