NOUN
- European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac
- widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers
How To Use sea holly In A Sentence
- With healthy provers, who have taken the Sea Holly experimentally in toxical doses of varying strength the sexual energies and instincts became always depressed. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- Despite its name, Eryngium Blue from DT Brown is not a sea holly but a bright-blue datura or jimson weed.
- Even a trip to the beach at La Rochelle yielded sightings of sea holly and sea lavender in nearby sand-dunes.
- One of my first choices is a new kind of eryngium, or Sea Holly.
- Things like sea holly, sea cabbage and mesembryanthemums all need the sun to open their flowers…