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Holly vs Yerba - What's the difference?

holly | yerba |

As nouns the difference between holly and yerba

is that holly is any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas while yerba is species: Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate.

As a proper noun Holly

is {{given name|female|from=English}}.

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

    yerba

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • , a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1839, author=Charles Darwin, title=The Voyage of the Beagle , chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba , and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, author=P. L. Simmonds, title=The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=This was the place at which the leaves and small sprigs of the yerba tree, when brought from the woods, were first scorched--fire being set to the logs of wood within it. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Various, title=Argentina From A British Point Of View, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His preparations for breakfast are simple, and he is ready to start out after half an hour spent in imbibing a few mates full of yerba infusion. }}

    See also

    * * (Ilex paraguariensis)

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