noun
Meaning 1
A plant of species Eryngium maritimum, of Europe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
sea holly
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noun
Meaning 2
A plant of species Eryngium maritimum, of Europe.
More generally, any of several species of plants in the genus Eryngium.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A plant of species Acanthus ebracteatus, of southeast Asia.
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noun
Meaning 4
widely cultivated southern European acanthus with whitish purple-veined flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bear's breech, bear's breeches, Acanthus mollis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: acanthus
noun
Meaning 5
European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sea holm, sea eryngium, Eryngium maritimum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shrub, bush
History
Etymology
From sea + holly.
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: приморски ветрогон (primorski vetrogon) — Eryngium maritimum
- Catalan: panical marí — Eryngium maritimum
- Catalan: card marí — Eryngium maritimum
- Czech: máčka přímořská — Eryngium maritimum
- Dutch: blauwe zeedistel — Eryngium maritimum
- Finnish: meripiikkiputki — Eryngium maritimum
- French: panicaut maritime — Eryngium maritimum
- German: Stranddistel — Eryngium maritimum
- Hungarian: tengerparti iringó — Eryngium maritimum
- Irish: cuileann duimhche — Eryngium maritimum
- Irish: cuileann trá — Eryngium maritimum
- Polish: mikołajek nadmorski — Eryngium maritimum
- Romanian: vitrigon — Eryngium maritimum
- Russian: синеголо́вник примо́рский (sinegolóvnik primórskij) — Eryngium maritimum
- Scottish Gaelic: cuileann-mara — Eryngium maritimum
- Scottish Gaelic: cuileann-tràgha — Eryngium maritimum
- Slovak: kotúč prímorský — Eryngium maritimum
- Spanish: cardo de mar — Eryngium maritimum
- Spanish: cardo marino — Eryngium maritimum
- Swedish: martorn — Eryngium maritimum
- Ottoman Turkish: دوه الماسی (deve elması) — Eryngium maritimum
- Arabic: قَرْصَعَنَّة (qarṣaʕanna) — Eryngium
- Arabic: شِنْدَاب (šindāb) — Eryngium
- Aramaic: ܩܱܪ̈ܨܥܴܢܳܐ (qarṣəʿānā) — Eryngium
- Aramaic: ܫܲܢܲܬ ܕܹܐܒܵܐ (šanaṯ dēʾḇā) — Eryngium
- Armenian: երնջնակ (ernǰnak) — Eryngium
- Bulgarian: ветрогон (vetrogon) — Eryngium
- Catalan: panical — Eryngium
- Czech: máčka — Eryngium
- Dutch: kruisdistel — Eryngium
- Finnish: piikkiputki — Eryngium
- Georgian: ლურჯი ნარი (lurǯi nari) — Eryngium
- Georgian: ლურჯეკალა (lurǯeḳala) — Eryngium
- German: Mannstreu — Eryngium
- Ancient Greek: ἤρυγγος (ḗrungos) — Eryngium
- Hungarian: iringó — Eryngium
- Italian: calcatreppolo — Eryngium
- Italian: eringio — Eryngium
- Japanese: ヒゴタイサイコ属 (higotaisaikozoku) — Eryngium
- Japanese: 肥後体柴胡属 (higotaisaikozoku) — Eryngium
- Central Kurdish: توێسی (twêsî) — Eryngium
- Polish: mikołajek — Eryngium
- Russian: синеголо́вник (sinegolóvnik) — Eryngium
- Serbo-Croatian: котр̀љан — Eryngium
- Serbo-Croatian: бр̏меч — Eryngium
- Serbo-Croatian: бр̏мак — Eryngium
- Serbo-Croatian: kotr̀ljan — Eryngium
- Serbo-Croatian: bȑmeč — Eryngium
- Serbo-Croatian: bȑmak — Eryngium
- Serbo-Croatian: sȉkavac — Eryngium
- Serbo-Croatian: sȉkavica — Eryngium
- Slovak: kotúč — Eryngium
- Slovene: stoglȃvež — Eryngium
- Swedish: martorn — Eryngium
- Ottoman Turkish: دوه الماسی (deve elması) — Eryngium
- Finnish: rauta-akantti — Acanthus ebracteatus
- German: Brakthüllenloser Akanthus — Acanthus ebracteatus