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Holi vs Holly - What's the difference?

holi | holly |

As proper nouns the difference between holi and holly

is that holi is a Hindu festival, held in the spring, in which people throw coloured powders at each other during noisy street celebrations while Holly is {{given name|female|from=English}}.

As a noun holly is

any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.

holi

English

(wikipedia Holi)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A Hindu festival, held in the spring, in which people throw coloured powders at each other during noisy street celebrations.

    • Anagrams

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    holly

    English

    Noun

    (hollies)
  • Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex , either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.
  • The wood from this tree.
  • (with a qualifier) Any of several unrelated plant species likened to Ilex because of their prickly, evergreen foliage and/or round, bright-red berries

    • Derived terms

    * false holly * * holly olive * holly osmanthus * * Hollywood * sea holly