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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A European seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum) having prickly, fleshy, bluish leaves and heads of blue or purplish flowers.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The eringo, Eryngium maritimum. Also sea-holm and sea-hulver. See eringo and Eryngium.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The plant Eryngium maritimum.
  2. n. More generally, any of several species of plants in the genus Eryngium.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) a species of Eryngium. See Eryngium.
  2. (Bot.) An evergeen seashore plant (Eryngium maritimum). See eryngium.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers
  2. n. European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac

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  1. sea-hulver
  1. eringo
  1. eryngium
  1. hulver
  1. sea-holm
  1. sea holm
  1. sea hulver
  1. yaupon

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  • ruzuzu "In Elizabethan times in England, these plants were believed to be a strong aphrodisiac. They are named in a speech by Falstaff:

    “ "Let the sky rain potatoes;
    let it thunder to the tune of Green-sleeves,
    hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes sea-holly,
    let there come a tempest of provocation..." ”
    —Falstaff, Act 5, scene v, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", William Shakespeare"

    --From the Wikipedia page for Eryngium maritimum.

    Feb 1, 2011

  • super-logos I tried to grow a sea holly in my garden here in SC but it died. I think it requires the sandy soil of the littorals. But it is a neat plant. Aug 20, 2008

  • chained_bear Aha! Thanks, pleth! Aug 18, 2008

  • plethora zelena zelena :) Aug 18, 2008

  • chained_bear Ooh, I like this plant! It reminds me of the conversation we had recently about celery. (That wasn't on the celery page, I don't think... was it? Rolig will remember.) Aug 14, 2008

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