Definition of "holm-oak" [holm-oak]

• The evergreen oak, Quercus Ilex. Also called holly-oak. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Poles of laurel or elm are most free from worms, and a share-beam of oak and a plough-tree of holm-oak."
• "Winding our way up the mountain roads, we caught the occasional glimpse of a Barbary ape going about its business among the cedar and holm-oak forests."
• "And just then she saw me looking, and hid behind a holm-oak tree; but I could still see the gleam of one shoulder and her long narrow eyes pursuing me."