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Definition of Holly family
1. Noun. Widely distributed shrubs and trees.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Genus Ilex, Ilex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holly Family
Literary usage of Holly family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"holly family. Shrubs or trees, with watery sap, and alternate petioled simple
often coriaceous leaves. Flowers axillary, small, clustered or solitary, ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"(holly family.) Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves, and small white
or greenish flowers. — Calyx 4 - 9-toothed. Corolla hypogynous. rotate ..."
3. Holly, Yew & Box: With Notes on Other Evergreens by William Dallimore, Thomas Moore (1908)
"... YEW & BOX THE holly family, GENERAL DESCRIPTION THE genus Ilex, to which the
group of trees and shrubs popularly known as Hollies belongs, ..."
4. Holly, Yew & Box: With Notes on Other Evergreens by William Dallimore, Thomas Moore (1908)
"... YEW & BOX > I THE holly family, GENERAL DESCRIPTION TH E genus Ilex, to which
the group of trees and shrubs popularly known as Hollies belongs, ..."
5. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... holly family. Trees or shrubs, with leaves alternate, simple; stipules small,
usually falling early; small, mostly polygamous, ..."
6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"The family is indeed very closely related to the holly family, but differs in
... holly family. Contains five genera and about 175 species, natives of both ..."
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