Hollyhock

Chamber's Etymological of the English Language · 1895 · p. 243
hol'i-Uok, n. a kind of mallow, brought into Europe from the Holy hand (M L ho//, hoc-holi, holy, and A.S hoc, mallows, W. horys. Holm, holm or hflm, n a rive i-islet nth flat land near a river A.S. holm, a mound u> various 'Feu tongues. Holm-oak, holin'- or hon i'-ok, n the ilex or evergreen oak, so called from some esemblanee to the holly. /Mmis a corr. of holm the M E. form of holly which see
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