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Definition of Holly-leaved cherry
1. Noun. California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers.
Generic synonyms: Wild Plum, Wild Plum Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holly-leaved Cherry
Literary usage of Holly-leaved cherry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"holly-leaved cherry. ISLAY. Prunus ilicifolia, Walp. Rose Family. ... The holly-leaved
cherry is a very ornamental shrub, with its shining, ..."
2. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"It is not uncommon in cultivation and is also called Evergreen Cherry and
holly-leaved cherry. Var. integrifolia Sarg. Tree 10 to 45 feet high or often of ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1854)
"... of a style quite different from any of our acquaintance in these smaller
fruits; the holly-leaved cherry, C. ilicifolia, from Upper California, ..."
4. Practical Forestry: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting, and Cultivation by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1910)
"Evergreen or holly-leaved cherry. — Leaves thick and rigid, shining above,
broadly-ovate, obtuse or acute, somewhat heart-shaped at base, ..."
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