Florida holly

noun

: brazilian pepper tree

Through a natural aisle of turkey oaks and pines out from the second-level deck, there was visible a Florida holly …

—Hazel Geissler, St. Petersburg (Florida) Evening Independent, 10 Jan. 1986

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

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